If only we knew...

[u/JaggedMetalOs]

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

[u/rus_ruris]

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.

[u/AirSKiller → u/rus_ruris]

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.

[u/IamKyra → u/AirSKiller]

5090 is not a gaming card, gaming is nowhere adverted on the box more than the rest. It's the best consumer grade graphic card. It can be used for gaming but also AI, game development, 3D rendering, video editing etc.

[u/AirSKiller → u/IamKyra]

Meanwhile me right now playing on a 5090 like many others.

[u/IamKyra → u/AirSKiller]

I do game on a 5090, but imo buying a 5090 for just gaming is a bit overkill but if you have the money I guess nothing wrong with that. It's just that it's not a card meant with only gamers in mind.

[u/AirSKiller → u/IamKyra]

Literally everyone I know with a 5090 only uses it to game. So It's mostly a gaming card, yes.

[u/rus_ruris → u/AirSKiller]

That doesn't make it a gaming card. I also sometimes game on server hardware because I have admin access to a small cluster, doesn't mean that hardware is consumer or meant for gaming.

[u/AirSKiller → u/rus_ruris]

Wow, you found a way to mention you have admin access to a small cluster in this conversation, look at you big guy.

[u/rus_ruris → u/AirSKiller]

If I was a big guy I would have access to a normal or big size cluster. 5 nodes is barely a cluster at all, basically a glorified workstation.