• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    I can’t believe the company pulling through with affordable but powerful graphics cards is Intel.

    This is like the season 1 bad guy joining forces against a greater evil.

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    5 hours ago

    More like pre 2025 and post 2025

    Nvidia always has been the biggest dick around hardware manufacturers

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, but NVIDIA used to be at least somewhat affordable. Now it feels like you have to get a credit check in order to buy any type of their components.

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      6 hours ago

      What an amazing middle finger. Very little knuckle, full fingered, fist in anger, lips curling for an expletive. Fucking beautiful form.

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    9 hours ago

    My 2025 pc (before the ram price jumps) is all amd!

    And its honestly pretty awesome

    And 20gb vram is nice

    Not that i think amd is a saint among these types of companies

    But compared to Nvidia…?

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      8 hours ago

      AMD does the exact same as Nvidia. They’re just less successful with it. It doesn’t really matter who you buy from in that regard, I think.

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        7 hours ago

        AMD doesn’t gate the high vram to be only their top end model. They have generally higher vram across the board.

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          They did but do their latest cards have an option for 24gb like my 7900xtx?

          I like them for Linux support but I don’t doubt they would start doing the same crap if they could break CUDAs strangle hold on the ML LLM space

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        8 hours ago

        yeah the main reason AMD isn’t quite as price-gouged is that ROCm isn’t quite as in demand as CUDA for non-gaming uses for GPUs.

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          8 hours ago

          Lisa Su has also been cozying up to Trump to try and accelerate data center construction.

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    11 hours ago

    The history of consumer computing is just looking at all the different ways Nvidia has figured out how to fuck said consumers over

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      4 hours ago

      Well, I guess I’ll just buy my hardware from a different supplie-

      sound of twin-engine B-52 Tariff Bomber zooming overhead, as wallet buster economic sanctions whistle towards their targets

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      7 hours ago

      Remember when we had to have a secondary nvidia GPU just to play games?

      Remember all of the fucky hacks, install orders, and workarounds we needed to make it work when our main GPU was an AMD card?

      Or when it was leaked for the 3rd time that nvidia was paying devs to make their game run worse on AMD hardware?

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t think they really are out to fuck consumers so much as they are an after after thought.

      The consumer space just isn’t able to pay what companies are paying and so in the words of Don Draper - ‘I don’t think about you at all’

      What is a bit of a dick move is their consumer division paying lip service and pretending like they matter to the company at all.

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        5 hours ago

        I think it’s rather telling that there’s not a single company that’s touching any of these currently insanely overpriced products and going, you know? I think I’m going to prioritize the human customers over the business customers. Sure, we may not make as much money, but we would have truckloads of goodwill and generate thousands of lifelong customers.

        And I understand the business reasoning for that, but great businesses are not built by bean counters any more than wars are decided by bullet rations.

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    10 hours ago

    Yet people keeps buying their product. It’s almost as if voting with your wallet is all that’ll ever work.

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      7 hours ago

      Billionaires love when you think you can only vote with your wallet. They have many, many more votes than you. Nvidia doesn’t give two shits about your wallet compared to the ones paying them to fill datacenters.

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        10 hours ago

        Yet all people I hear have bought new computers in the last 15 years (very few exceptions) somehow has Nvidia cards.

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          9 hours ago

          I went AMD when I bought my new computer 3 years ago! (Not that they’re much better at all!)

          Hoping cheap Chinese GPUs and RAM catch up soon!

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                The country of the Great Firewall actually making free and open computing possible in the World at a time were most supposed Democracies are closing it all down claiming it’s “for the sake of the children” or “to protect us from Terrorism” or some other thin self-serving excuse for expanding civil society surveillance, would truly be the ultimate role-reversal.

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      The sales of consumer GPUs make up a veeeery tiny percentage of nvidias revenue. Nvidia could stop selling consumer GPUs tomorrow and it wouldn’t even make a noticeable dent in their revenues. And what other options do u really have? Any other company ain’t much better.

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      9 hours ago

      voting with your wallet

      I’m terrified how many people think buying and selling stuff is moral, civic, and democratic duty. Econ 101 doesn’t even work in economics, why are we applying it to everything?

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      7 hours ago

      Doesn’t really help that they got an almost monopoly on the market (with the only competitors being as shitty and involved in the AI circlejerk just as much).

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      8 hours ago

      We don’t have the money to back up our vote in this ‘election’. If you could even call it that. Capitalism isn’t a democratic process.

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        8 hours ago

        If you havr the money for a Nvdia GPU, i think you have the money for an AMD or Intel GPU…

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          8 hours ago

          If you genuinely think they care about making a mere thousand bucks on a lumpy graphics card then you have been sleeping under a rock. Their costumers are Amazon, Microslop and Meta. Not you or me.

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            I am perfectly aware but that does not mean you should continue to buy from them, they still make money from them and they are evil as fuck also, when companies will inevitably start to buy less from Nvidia, it will be a problem for them