I think the term artificially inflated is more apt here. Why are cards that are sold as 1710mhz cards even boosting in the driver to over 1900mhz in the first place? and still doing so even with this "fix"? Is it because they don't look so good at 1710mhz?
https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-qui...-gaming-x-trio-design-amid-stability-concerns MSI redesign their PCBs. https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-al...eforce-rtx-3080-tuf-and-rog-strix-pcb-designs And so do Asus.
I really didnt mean to shitbag zotac, they have been a decent brand of cards ... kind of like if Acclaim was making pc hardware that's zotac, but a lot of the AIB's got short shafted and MLCC's (multi layer ceramic capacitor) are things that are stupid cheap, but you have to plan for in volume, cause lets face it, your buying them for less than one US cent ... with at least 5 markup's tween raw and in your hand Suppliers are not making MLCC's for giggles, you have to forecast them like 18 months in advance ... so spec says (number out of my ass) 10uf to suppress the EMI problem, cool great we can slap a bunch of 1uf tant's that no one in serious industry will touch so there's a glut (cause fire n ****) in paralell and call it a day, not knowing there's some weird spike in the 100mhz band that causes the supervisor in the GPU to crap its pants and slap its wife I have have had this problem before back when I was a design engineer, and now that I am a test engineer, oh yea a 220nf ceramic cap at this location nails down your EMC violation so you can pass blah blah blah bullcrap just in case someone runs a shortwave radio and your tail light flickers for 200ms... and its a 5 month battle to get in the pipeline cause NO ONE, wants to make MLCC's cause they make 0.001 cent a pop on them.
I'm pretty sure AIB's didn't know sli was being culled from the 3080 till really late. It's particularly telling on the gigabyte eagle where the cooler isn't as tall where the NV link should be and the backplate is missing a chunk there too. Maybe it was a last minute decision by Nvidia too? Although the 3090 is a "pro-sumer workstation card", it would have been a hard sell to the enthusiast crowd when 2 3080s could be had for the same price or less.
The original pics we got that were: It's very odd how soooo much was leaked ahead of time. It would not surprise me in the least if they were part of a planned and calculated hype train marketing campaign.
Pff, companies that're around mostly to make money are surely more interested in the back and forth on an English tech forum!
Imagine the price hikes of the next gen consoles if Nvidia got their greedy hands in there... Makes me think, this could be part of Nvidias plan for the consoles following on from PS5 and Xbox, with buying ARM. If they can produce good CPU's, where they have about 7yrs to do this, they could protentionally steal the console market from AMD, and produce the hardware for those future consoles. Food for thought.
Doubt it because unlike Consoles the Enterprise market already has the profit margins that Jensen thinks look good in a little black dress... so the Enterprise market is where he will focus.
Will? They've been focussed on it for several yeears, in fact they made more money from enterprise than consumeer last year or earleir this year for the first time. You can't run Geforce or Titan cards in datacentres (the EULA forbids the driver to be installed there), so you bet they're after those huge revenues!
I think it makes perfect sense, as the overall goal is to sell to the mass market. Human nature is, we always want more. Nvidia's goal is the same, Greed.
I just don't think Sony or Microsoft would be willing to pay a big fat Nvidia tax for some ARM Cpus to put in consoles, so those Nvidia ARM Cpus will end up in the Enterprise market instead.
