People say it’s due to “blow back” but Nvidia give maybe half a fk ab that. The real reason is to not eat into their AI/ML workstation cards.
Giving the weak 4060ti large VRAM is perfect for that. Students and AI/ML curious ppl can get it (and get into Nvidia ecosystem later) to tinker, but they cant make serious money from the card.
Cards like 70/ti have enough juice to act as budget AI/ML machine aren’t viable due to VRAM. Yes this gimps them in gaming. BUT! Not to the point of outright losing to the competitors as 12GBs is still in the “still work” zone.
Ppl who want to make serious money need to fork out 1 grand or higher for a card with both horsepower AND VRAM like 4080/90, H100.
People say it’s due to “blow back” but Nvidia give maybe half a fk ab that. The real reason is to not eat into their AI/ML workstation cards.
Giving the weak 4060ti large VRAM is perfect for that. Students and AI/ML curious ppl can get it (and get into Nvidia ecosystem later) to tinker, but they cant make serious money from the card.
Cards like 70/ti have enough juice to act as budget AI/ML machine aren’t viable due to VRAM. Yes this gimps them in gaming. BUT! Not to the point of outright losing to the competitors as 12GBs is still in the “still work” zone.
Ppl who want to make serious money need to fork out 1 grand or higher for a card with both horsepower AND VRAM like 4080/90, H100.