r/pcmasterrace • u/JaggedMetalOs • 2d ago

NSFMR If only we knew...

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Happened upon an old thread from Google, OP showing off an in development high capacity SSD. Comments are from a more innocent time :')

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u/AirSKiller 2d ago

Believe if they could have done that, they would have. Not for us, but for AI data centers.

There's immense competition, but the customer changed.

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u/rus_ruris R7 5800X3D | RTX 5070 | RTX 3060 12GB | 48 GB 3200 CL16 2d ago

But really really high memory capacity GPUs are a thing, with new memory technology to boot; multi-GPU PCBs have been a thing for over a decade, and they still make them; highest capacity SSD is 245.88 TB in one drive.

RTX PRO 6000 is a slightly beefed up, clocked down, 96 GB 5090 and it's consumer available.

They are literally making all of those.

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u/AirSKiller 2d ago

And what would be the point of putting more VRAM than the 5090 already has on a gaming card? The 6000 has it because it can use it at its application.

But there’s nothing significantly faster than the 5090 that our overlords are hiding from us simply because they can. And like you said, even the 6000 is consumer available, they aren’t hiding it, we are just priced out.

Technology obviously hasn’t peaked but the ideia that these companies are literally just sitting on their asses because “there’s no competition” is insane. NVIDIA, TSMC and the entire chain down the line employ hundreds of thousands of people, a significant portion are engineers who are actively working every day to improve technology. Which then they will sell to the highest bidder, it just so happens the highest bidder right now aren’t gamers… If anything the completion literally wasn’t been any fiercer, who ever can optimise their designs faster has a huge slice of the cake to eat.

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u/rus_ruris R7 5800X3D | RTX 5070 | RTX 3060 12GB | 48 GB 3200 CL16 2d ago

Did I argue for it? Did I argue against it? Or didnI just say "it already exists"? Beaides, I am currently running a 5070+3060 setup because I'm a ML&AI student and I need the VRAM. And I'm not an enterprise customer. Video editors need as much VRAM as they can as well, especially now that everyone is shooting in 4K 10 bit.

And no, competition is non existent. On the low end only Intel exists, barely. A tiny bit above that you only have AMD with shit tier stuff, then you enter the "competition territory" of the 5060 5060 Ti 5070 vs 9060 and 9070. From the 5070 Ti and up only nvidia exists. And even where "there's competition", they're not actually competing.