Nvidia Is Going To Massively Raise GPU Prices/Cut Supply For Gamers

[HoloDust]

Soundwave said:

HoloDust said:

Can't say I follow AI market much (apart from what's directly tied to my job), just extrapolating from previous trends and articles like this one:

https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/inference-is-splitting-in-two-nvidias-usd20b-groq-bet-explains-its-next-act

Anyhow, I expect if nVidia and AMD ditch consumer GPU market (for the most part), that there will be other players who will jump in.

There's not many companies that can make GPUs, it's why even Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft are basically stuck choosing between AMD or Nvidia most of the time. 

To create some new GPU gaming architecture that could viably compete would be a massive undertaking for someone else and they would hamstrung by the same modern reality of chip production ... things like RAM and other key components are going to be sky high because every bit of that which goes into some gamer's GPU could have been used for a more profitable AI server instead. 

Among other things  (like Intel and Chinese GPUs), we'll see where we are in few years when there is ecosystem of not-so-expensive ARM based handhelds that are running Steam/SteamOS natively, and if those mobile SoCs and architectures will proliferate into desktop space as well packaged in GabeCube alike products.

If there is opening in market, someone will inevitably jump in to fill it - it's the nature of the beast.