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I'm going to make so many deepfakes with the GTX cards I buy with these 20k in NVDA gains
Intel's Arc A380 GPU should go on sale in the US for the first time this month (August 22).
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$GTXO GTX Corp Signs Development Collaboration and Reseller Agreement with LifeConnect
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Same, just had too much in data center stuff and moved more into aerospace and now doing some more boring names like GTX, ODC and RL
Step aside. I still use a GTX 970. 💪
Bro, don't throw shade at my GTX 1080ti like that
Zuck - dead last in AI race Insane turnover in his AI shop, throwing a billion at a guy here and firing a guy there Yet, somehow, switching to Google TPUs is going to put him back in the game I might be a fucking retard for bagholding NVDA right now, but META investors are mega retarded considering how he fucked up the multiverse and now he cant even get a decent LLM out that some bro could code in his basement with an GTX 1080
It'll happen again, in the mid-late 2000's they had similiar sentiments arount the 8800 GTX OC. They defo don't do it on purpose.
I worked at a computer store back with the 6 series and 7 series were the big boys. Believe me. The GTX 970 might as well have been a second coming. There was a reason it was the single most popular card pre crypto boom. But the 1080 can still play, makes perfect sense.
There was a GTX1080Ti in the files. It's over for nvda. That card was the tits
The GTX in one of my computers also counts, right....
Yeah, boring, but wanted to get something like that with RL. GTX is a bit of a growth and more of my style. GILT was a small position, but another name I've been watching for like a year and wanted to pull the trigger after a bit of a pull back and the ER being solid.
Ended moving some capital around finally pulled the trigger on GILT, RL, and GTX.
Going to start new positions in GTX and REVG monday.
Man, I remember looking at GTX when it was $5.... everything is obvious in hindsight!
Still waiting for some new companies to hit the screener. However, thinking about buying some REVG and GTX today.
I’d rather own Nvidia and its chips than companies like Open AI basing their revenue on using a GPU for 10 years. Imagine using a GTX 1060 against a competitors using a RTX 5090. These companies are selling rubes and naive investors a myth.
$CDLR has been on a nice run the past few days. Company seems really cheap based off their fundamentals and interesting play on green energy. They build out special fleets for offshore wind. Just have a hard time pulling the trigger on something so CAPEX intensive. [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d) Also came across another interesting name this morning, not sure if anyone follows them, $GTX? Looks pretty solid from a fundamental stand point: [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d) Here's what they do: > > > > Growth seems a bit slow, but ROIC looks great: [https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US](https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US) Looks like they are buying back a lot of shares, they took out 10% last year and 1.5% QoQ.
$CDLR has been on a nice run the past few days. Company seems really cheap based off their fundamentals and interesting play on green energy. They build out special fleets for offshore wind. Just have a hard time pulling the trigger on something so CAPEX intensive. [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d) Also came across another interesting name this morning, not sure if anyone follows them, $GTX? Looks pretty solid from a fundamental stand point: [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d) Here's what they do: >Garrett Motion Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells turbocharging, air and fluid compression, and high-speed electric motor technologies for original equipment manufacturers and distributors in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. >The company offers cutting-edge technology for the mobility and industrial space, including light vehicles, commercial vehicles, and industrial applications. >It also provides mechanical and electrical products for turbocharging and boosting internal combustion engines, as well as compressing air for fuel cell compressors, and compressing refrigerant for electric cooling compressors. >It offers its products in the aftermarket through distributors. Garrett Motion Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Rolle, Switzerland. Growth seems a bit slow, but ROIC looks great: [https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US](https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US) Looks like they are buying back a lot of shares, they took out 10% last year and 1.5% QoQ.
value =\= utility It will be outdated and it would be cheap to build one with the same capacity, but never the less they are still usable, just like there are plenty of people rocking their 10yo GTX1080
Proud GTX1070 owner here.
Oh yeah, forgot: - Had a 8800GTX and set up mining, stopped after getting 4 BTC because it was making my room hot and spent them on weed
I bought NVIDIA right before it went to the moon. In 2013 and again in 2019. A GTX 770 and a RTX 2070 super.
It's wild to me that NVDA is basically the economy now, when I was buying the GTX 1060 as a kid.
The one that kills me is back in 2014 I was doing deep learning research in grad school. Convinced my advisee to buy a bunch of GTX 980s. Got into an argument with the head of the departments compute cluster about Nvidia GPUs vs Intels offerings. I remember even saying something like, If I wasn't on a grad school salary is buy Nvidia stock because they have no competitors and deep learning will change everything. Rip
Tbf, I might also be autistic, but for me it was building my first PC around the new GTX 550 Ti for Skyrim's release on Christmas 2011. Possibly also some subliminal messaging from listening to that sweet Nvidia *whisper* every time I booted up Civ IV for years before.
"we are done when i say we are done" - me to my GTX1060
It's crazy how upgrading to a 1060GTX is responsible for me making a bag.
Funny how my 1060 GTX is directly responsible for making me a huge bag.
First time I ever mind was in 2013 and believe it or not back then the AMD gpus were faster. 7070Ghz Ed vs GTX680. IIRC the best dollar per watt at the time was either the 7850 or the 7870 from AMD. I sure shit wish I'd thought Bitcoin was more than just "a phase" and kept track of those coins. A well, c'est la vie.
That is an AWESOME comparison! Especially since I have shares of NVDA and do not have the GTX 1080Ti. :)
This was literally me. GTX 1080 was my first new Nvidia card. It was a game changer. Gaming, video editing, Autocad every god damn thing I did, my PC crushed it because of this card. About two years of owning it and I realized this company was beyond all its competition and started buying stock. I plan to put the graphics card in a glass case and hang it in the entry of my house that will be completely paid for by Nvidia. Thank you Jensen, I love my 4080 now.
I'm still using the GTX 1060 6GB, and it can still play a lot of games at high settings on my 1080p monitor. I still feel like my monitor is a bigger bottleneck than my gpu
They were all pretty good tbh. I know people still rocking the GTX 1060 6GB by just playing new games on low settings.
GTX 10 series was a legendary generation of GPUs. Best price to performance of any generation tbh.
They definitely can. It's just going to go basically back to probably around 1080GTX eras GPUs for Nvidia. Idk probably zen1 for AMD. Basically energy bills and summer is gonna suck donkey balls
I thank the lord that AI, stables diffusion, and the GTX 5090 did not exist when I was 18. Horny teenage me would have been a world class elite gooner
The reason AMD was able to beat Intel because in 2015 era when Lisa Su became the CEO they csme up with Ryzen 1 (it uses chiplet arch). Imagine like lego bricks. Intel was using a diff arch, they rried hard for few years trying to come up with the fastest chip, 1-2 model were able to beat the benchmark as wel but AMD kept on increase chiplets (thus cores and Ghz speed) and Intel simply could not deliver. Same arch is now planned for MI cards, right now nVidia has a big lead but if someone who has followed nVidia from last 20 yrs might know how they have been increasing the card sizes, fan sizes, fin sizes. No doubt their gaming cards GTX 780, GTX 1080, RTX 2080 and RTX 3090 are becoming giants in size. Its mainly to dissipiate heat. You can do this only upto a certain limit. There is also a theory running around in nVidia office that nvIdia is not making any new gaming cards because there is not much they can do without increasing further sizes and fans which is becoming a bottleneck (I have couple friend working for nVidia). nVidia might lose the HW edge in next 2 yrs but they have massive software edge which could be tough to break but I again software is easier to make as well. I expect AMD to catch soon.
Coreweave bagholders run zoom on GTX 5090
Does Chyna want my old GTX 1080TI instead?
You do realize Nvidia's offices were raided in France for supposedly threatening GPU allocation if partners switched right? It's not the only example of Nvidia coercing it's partners either. Back in 2018 Nvidia's GeForce partner program was canceled after it was found out that Nvidia conditioned allocation of it's GPUs to partners based on whether they pulled premium branding from AMD products. I should point out that while the GPP was canceled, the parties to the original GPP contract (Gigabyte, MSI, and ASUS) have indeed pulled their premium SKUs from AMD. Go and look at the 7000 and 9000 series AMD products from Gigabyte, ASUS, and MSI. Their top end SKUs in Suprim, Master, and Strix aren't available on AMD. Nvidia has lost 3 partners (BFG, XFX, and it's biggest partner EVGA) due to it's abusive behavior. Anyone claiming Nvidia doesn't have a long history of being crap to it's partners and anti-competitive is either ignorant or lying. That's before we even get into Nvidia's past shenanigans with GameWorks, cheating benchmarks, lying to investors, or lying about the amount of VRAM on it's video cards (it was sued and lost for failing to disclose the fact that the GTX 970 had 0.5 GB of slow memory it didn't disclose to customers). I mean a single glance at Nvidia's benchmark numbers will tell you what kind of company it is. "2x the performance of last gen" when blackwell is barely 3% faster in a like for like comparison to Lovelace.
My favorite mornings are when I hold overnight and stonk goes up 10%. only thing I did different is put a GTX970 under my pillow and slept in a leather jacket.
3 digit cost basis, bought a house in 2019 with what I managed to mine with a GTX 680 in High School and my first two years of college. Still holding generational wealth. HFSP
Battery still good changed it last year and it stays on a battery tender in the garage. Changing plugs now. It’s a 2022 GTX 170 debating selling it or trading it in for an RXP-X 300 but idk shits paid for and only has 150 hours on it. https://preview.redd.it/93jvxnir6ocf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27626cf7f1931154f8ef1f7ba2d8143d8f5f5834
I bought my first and only PC on Newegg back in 2013 for $1200. Had a i7-3770k, a GTX 680, and a gigabyte motherboard. It’s still trucking along to this day. I would like to see GameStop buy Newegg.
Problem is NVDA wasn't $2.77 in Feb 2017 it was over $100 per share pre-split. And since you 'bought 1080 shares in honor of my GTX1080 that year' we know you lied about that part of the story. So now the question is which other parts did you lie about?
>My first purchase was for 1080 **(in honor of my GTX 1080 I bought that year)** You're full of it. Got caught in an obvious lie and now you're awkwardly backtracking but digging yourself into obvious contradictions. It's pretty pathetic that you made up this story for attention.
But you stated you bought 1080 shares in particular - 'in honor of my GTX1080 I bought that year'. Cute story.
GTX didn’t hold onto much of its gains today because the company is running out of money and will have to raise cash (diluting shareholders), and a lot, by the end of the year.
Ok, but YOU said you bought 1080 shares because you got a 1080 GTX graphics card. You obviously either bought 27 shares and magically predicted they would turn into 1080 shares someday, or you made it up dude.
I was wrong, it was 1080 shares in today’s shares with all the splits. So it was probably 50-100 shares that became 1080 over the years. When I wrote that number, I remembered I had a GTX 1080 at the time and that made sense why I bought that many now that I think about it more, you are right. I never bought 1080 back then but that’s just how much the shares are as of yesterday when I sold.
True, I didn’t know this though. Thats what I thought at the time. Crazy GTX prices were equated to the crypto boom. If that was true or not, that was the narrative
https://preview.redd.it/z4zpguiyz2cf1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b178801902ef23284671b81dfe389b25acc91255 Good to see another early nvda investor. I bought it originally because I built a PC with a GTX 1080ti back in 2017 and I was impressed with how it performed. Then in 2018 I read about Nvidia's involvement with autonomous driving and decided to invest more.
Sorry, my Fidelity account just shows the stocks as valued today. It’s all too confusing for me so if I said I bought 1080 in 2017 then you gotta do the math to find out what that was back then. I’ll admit it, I made up the GTX 1080 tribute in hindsight. In reality I probably bought 30 shares back then. If you go to the Nvidiastock sub, I posted the actual screen shot there.
Stick to it. I have been investing in HON since the late 1990's via their DRIP - initially $100/month then switched to $500/quarter added extra from my bonuses or extra cash and sold previous spin-offs (ASIX, REZI, GTX) and rebrought parent. By far my largest individual holding. Only sold once (100 shares) during Covid to remodel the kitchen. Probably not touching anymore but will give to heirs to get the stepped-up cost basis. Good Luck.
Find something you use and everyone uses and something everyone will eventually use. *Invest in that company*. In November 2017, I bought 8 nVidia GTX 1080ti's for $800 each to mine. That's $6,400.00 in hardware that becomes obsolete in a year. Also cost me $600 a month in electricity for the 3 months I mined. Was making $300 a day. I made roughly $18k. At the time NVDA was roughly $5. Had instead of the hardware invested in the company, I'd have 1,280 shares if NVDA, I'd have $200k. Now, we could go back to May 2000 when I was 13 and overclocking a GeForce2 Ultra ($180 at the time). NVDA was $0.20, or 900 shares for a card. And as innovative as AAPL was, they were stagnant for almost 2 decades until the iPod/iPhone niche market became global.
Jensen Huang was one of the most hated men by gamers when GTX1080 were all scalped for cryptocurrency mining back when NVDA was the shovel seller in that hype market bubble. Now it’s… not so different
1st moat is not really a moat, if anything it's a curse. The most expensive and bleeding edge chips (e.g. Nvidia and AMD) will never be on Intel because Intel is directly involved in competing with them (as uncompetitive Intel is on all fronts). They may get a slice on consumer and lower end stuff (e.g. Nvidia used Samsung 14nm on GP107 i.e. GTX 1050/Ti; Ampere consumer on SS 8nm), but never the truly flagships like GB200 or MI400 / EPYC. People do not trust Intel the way they do with TSMC - and justifiably so - what goodwill Intel has build up over the last 20 years but a streak of failure to put it bluntly? At least Samsung Foundry (as messy as they are in their own incompetence) actually have some products to show for when it comes to the bleeding edge; what had Intel Foundry exactly done so far? I struggle to name something that will make me go "Yes this is the thing". Yes, they will get government contracts but GF also exists and most military chips does not require anything close to bleeding edge. 2nd moat is fine but the reality is that x86 has peaked and it's only downhill from there, or at best a slow and steady decline. There is a reason why everyone wants to move away - difficult sure as we have seen but it is inevitable over the long term. Unless there are significant revision to x86 itself I don't see a growth picture here.
And I'll be "Chief Masturbation Officer" aboard the ISS-Leather Jacket, a GTX class transport freighter traveling between Mars and the outer colonies!
Oh and PC building regrets??? I was building a gaming pc and looking to get a GTX 285 in late 2009. I didn't understand at the time how valuable bitcoin was going to be, but I was competing with bitcoin miners for this video card. The card was like $300+ dollars and I was like why would you buy a video card to make something that you can't even get back the worth of for several months? You could literally generate two bitcoins a month with that card. And here I am wasting the graphics card just playing battlefield
Posting from my Huawei tablet. I'll take the reasonably priced HappyEnding coutesian bot over the Jackotron 6090GTX that will catch your dick on fire lmao
You can't possibly believe that. I just built a spare parts PC for my brother's friend because everyone was sick of having to play quickplay with the only console friend on Marvel Rivals. A Ryzen 5 2600X that was $99 in late 2019 and a GTX 980 Ti I bought for $175 second hand in early 2020 and they're playing Marvel Rivals at 1080p 75hz on low settings. That graphics card was released in June of 2015.
I have investing HON since the late 1990's via their DRIP - initially $100/month then switched to $500/quarter added extra from my bonuses and sold previous spin-offs (ASIX, REZI, GTX) and rebrought parent. By far my largest individual holding. Only sold once (100 shares) during Covid to remodel the kitchen. Probably not touch anymore but give to heirs to get stepped-up cost basis.
Making puts on NVDA from my shitty ass GTX1650 feels like a crime Me: "don't watch little one"  Also me: "FUCK YOU NVDA, I HOPE YOU GO TO 0, BURN BURN BURN you bull fuk!" 
best I can to for that price with inflation is a GTX 970
BYD Seal, BYD Atto 3, MG4, XPENG X9, XPENG P7, VW ID.7 GTX Tourer, Polestar 4, Cupra Tavascan
No, but you'll be thrown roughly 10 years back in time chipwise. ASML is currently the only company in the world able to produce the equipment needed to make sub-14nm chips. Going back to 14nm chips for NVidia would be going back to their GTX 10 cards (1080 etc), and for Apple they'd going back to Iphone 6 and MacBook 2015s. What's worse for you though is that you'd be stuck on that level for a *long* time, likely a decade or more, because no other company in the world is even close to being able to replicate ASML's EUVL tech.
Their GTX5090 caught fire so NVDA must about to be 🔥
NVIDIA being NVIDIA. Seriously fuck this company. I still remember when I bought GTX970 and out of the 4gb of the card 3.5gb where running at normal speed and 0.5gb where running at 1/7th of the normal speed.
Introducing the RTX 140 ti >! It benchmarks like a GTX 139 Super !<
I'm at 9 bagging my options account in three months now. Courtesy of PARA, DIS, FUBO, FLG, SU, GTX, NBIS, SMCI, and some Canadian commodity short puts from Trump. Probably my best run ever so far before I move the cash. Still makes only like 2.5% of my portfolio but when it hits 5% I pull it out a bunch, never done it so quickly though. Don't think just buying calls on NVDA is a great idea, you want to diversify and play some different angles. Huge chance of failure doing that. In around 60ish trades I've had 5 losses, if I went all in on those I'd be cleaned out. No actual recommendations.
Watch out, people who read this post. Today the Phase 3 results have been released, and GTX104 met its primary endpoints. This is going to explode, buckle up!!
The bear case is that there's efficiency in the pipeline and that as useful models get smaller, they can run on the tensor and language chips of competitors that are limited by memory. Also, DeepSeek's performance optimizations (PTX) run on anything GTX 9xx or newer. Only limitation is memory. There's a lot of these cards not being used because they're obsolete. Neither of these are threatening anytime soon due to the large backorder that's probably not going to get reduced. However, if AI investment slows in the near term in anticipation of these efficiency gains, then it gives competitors time to catch up. There's a lot of money here and a lot of start-ups want a slice of the pie. Other efficiency gains would come from caching and other tricks. There's a lot that's not done simply because there's not a strong motivation to do it. Arguably, the biggest bear case is that the price is slightly ahead of itself and there's not a great reason to keep pumping it higher given the longer term risks. If you've got long term gains there's a strong incentive to just lock it in. nVidia might be a great wheel play if you have the money
Can you buy me GTX 5090 before u go?
My personal guess is that all of that is a potemkin village. There isa proverb "A Chinese knows seven ways of not telling the truth". Right now people are digging deeper and they will find what is to be found. You will not find GTX4xxx or Axxx cards in China, because they are export banned from the US side. But you also find that China has forbidden crypto mining and that they have the second row cards (GTX 9xx, 7xxx) sold by the weight or by 1000 pieces since they are too old for state-of-the-art gaming and now also too old for mining. My guess is that they used (secretly) all of these leftover cards and ran a massive parallel training with less capabilities on the cards themselves but scaled out by the number... possibly with free electricity (gouverment sponsorship) so the cards had been cheap AND the invest in electricity to run the AI training... zero. Meta and the others are right now attempt to train a Deepseek by themselves but that might take some time... and at the end (my guess) is that deepseek is somehow simple minded. Simple massive multi computing devices had been on the marke at the early ninetees, called "Transputer". Even capable running a neuronal network on them. But noone did... also noone remembers that the mag seven invested into "CYC", a low ressource made machine learning based LLM [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc) However CYC could not think like a modern GenAI. And deepseek possilby contains Cyc instead of a self developped LLM...
There's no such thing...GTX* Also I was seeing people say it ran well on high end gpus 3080 and above as well as M1 Mac. So run on GTX 1660...MAYBE. run well on GTX 1660 highly unlikely.
It's worse than that. It would be like if someone found a way to get slightly worse performance than a 5090 on a $50 GTX 750TI.
I'm going to upgrade my whole PC as soon as my GTX 1080 fails, or dies trying.
"Powered by a GTX1650 and $105.67 in a single Tesla call option."
Yeah. It’s pretty bananas. They’re still slated to redevelop that whole area by itaewon for 5bil or something. A lot of my friends think Seoul and Korea should be fine because everyone is moving to Seoul anyways, but I don’t see how they don’t see the fallacy in that considering the population decline and estimates. That’s a decade solution at best. Seoul is already about to bankrupt itself I imagine with this GTX project
AMD is so much better price and performance than Intel CPU chips. I guess for the most extreme productivity intel could be a better choice but in that extreme example I’m not sure that Intel can hold with the problems they’ve been having with their CPUs. I’m not investing in either since amd gave up on competing with Nvidia in flagship GPUs, which wtf, and I’ve been a Nvidia guy since high school when the GTX was becoming a thing, and Intel is Intel. $21 isn’t a bad price for Intel but that’s a big ship to turn with the new CEO and I hear the foundry quality isn’t up to par with SMCI. I would be more interested in investing in AMD.
but you wouldn't have an Nvidia GTX 3070 in 2016
I'm still rocking a Zotac GTX 1650. I only game at 1080p and never buy the latest titles. so I'm good for now.
That’s actually my whole investment thesis back in 2018, because I built a PC with their then-newest beast GTX 2080 to play a game called overwatch.
I mentioned GTX the other day, but it's an interesting play on not going EV everything right away. They primarily make turbo chargers for cars and trucks. The debt is an issue, but they are making progress. It's an interesting side note that despite their debt load and reduction they are buying back 3-4% of outstanding shares per quarter right now. Not a particularly great long term hold, but this thing could be so cheap that it sees a big move up if money flows into the sector. Especially if they decimate their float before then....
As others have said, to preserve future shareholder faith. It also depends on future potential earnings vs. liquidation risk. If it's a temporary crisis then debtors are more willing to negotiate. If not, then it's a feeding frenzy on whatever value remains. Source: small post-chapter 11 GTX holder
How many GTX680 can you get for 220k?
I had a buddy try to get me into Bitcoin before it was ever even used as a "real" currency. He wanted me to join his mining pool with my brand GTX 460 because it would mine so much better than what him and his other buddies had. Website looked sketchy as fuck so I said no. I wish I was one of the regards who lost 1000s of Bitcoin on an old hardrive or by deleting a wallet or something.
Watcha talkin about smalls? Oversupply of GPU that companies can't use?? Your grandma's old GTX750 is not what AWS and Azure wants. These types of DDs reinforces the fact that AI is still Bullish!
GTX series doesn't exist anymore, and no one actually cares about the RTX 5000 cards, they're for gaming and only retail buys them. AI chips are the main moneymaker
Jensen pls drop the 5000 GTX series or something 🥺
I just found out today that I can’t get $600 for my GTX980 anymore What gives
I mean, their Battlemage looks like it's roughly a GTX 4060. That's not great.
If your broker has it change the time in force on your order from DAY to GTX. GTX means good through the extended hours trading sessions. This would include the pre-market session as well. Note that GTX and GTC are not the same. GTC means good 'til canceled and is used if you want your order in for multiple days, until it's filled or you cancel it
This is the dude selling a 10 year old gaming PC on facebook marketplace for $1300 because the "GTX 1080ti can easily max out new games like valorant at 1080p"
Crazy how Nvidia made the GTX1080ti and never made a better card since
Go watch Jensen Huang give a talk at Stanford from 2011 (look it up [](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/) won't let me post youtube vids) This was 13 years ago. The transformer model architecture which revolutionized machine translation and language modeling would not be published until 2017. The AlexNet paper which was just about the first paper to leverage (Nvidia) GPUs to scale up image recognition did not come out until 2012. In 2012, this paper revolutionized the field by training a convolutional neural network (quite possibly the largest in the world at the time) on just two commercial grade Nvidia GTX 580 gaming GPUs. Does he mention machine learning at all in 2011? No. But go to roughly 30 minutes, and Jensen tells us exactly why Nvidia is successful today. He talks about GeforceFX and the invention of programmable shaders. Nvidia developed the first domain specific language (Cg; circa 2004) for building programmable shaders. Before Cg was invented, shaders were incredibly hard to program. Games like DOOM3 had to have specialized code paths for different GPUs and I believe the shaders themselves had to be written in a low level assembly-like language. Cg not only simplified the creation of shaders, but it also locked in gamedevs for several years into Nvidia's ecosystem. Furthermore, researchers at universities were able to hack it to use GPUs for general purpose computing. Just a few years later, Nvidia would release CUDA which is even better for getting GPUs to do general purpose computing. So the general idea is NVIDIA did not develop CUDA out of altruistic motives, nor did it do it to revolutionize machine learning. The goal was the same goal as with Cg and development of programmable shaders. It was to expand the GPU market into **general purpose computing**. In 2004 the biggest driver of Nvidia GPUs was Doom 3 and Half-life 2. In 2024, gaming represents less than 10% of Nvidia's sales! Nvidia continues to do this. Nvidia hardware has expanded into robotics, machine learning, bioinformatics... Nvidia actively develops new markets for its products and invests in the developer relations and software to satisfy customers within those markets.
Ah i keep forgetting these specific examples in the response, But things I noticed that are anti-consumer is how the chip industry will always make a product for large companies like Amazon, Microsoft, etc and give the masses the scraps or leftovers. They won't design a product with the mass consumer in mind, only the consumers with the most money. That;s how the business model works unfortunately, and you might be saying "so what?". Well, that is anti-innovation and anti-consumer. Case in point, When Nvidia designed the "RTX" brand and dropped GTX focus. No mass consumer wanted, needed, or had a strong use case to use RT cores. Yet 1/3 of the die or more is now commited to these tensor cores. They used to make cards and chips that had full CUDA cores which CAN be used by the current consumer, and consumer expectations are that Nvidia will continue to offer products that serve this need. But no, when you're the market leader, you steer and customers shut up and follow. Criticism seems to just be quieted when you are in the lead.. They will hail these decisions as innovations when really they don't serve the consumer. Do you remember the first Ray Tracing demos? Do you remember the tech press' reviews of "real lighting and reflections" and how much performance was lost when enabling it in battlefield? Do you remember the hype, the marketing? Do you remember how much this was touted as "innovation"? The truth is, RTX as a brand is an attempt to sell Tensor cores to the masses and artificially brand it as "innovation". The only use case where this comes close in the whole RTX brand line up is DLSS, the only one that is even usable or passable. And this still took 4 years to become more mainstream and a decent use case. Let's move to the competition for argument's sake. What did AMD in response to this? They took their architecture which is SM units and not CUDA core cells, whatever the over arching container is called I forget because they changed it every new product they made... They took their SM units and made the reprogrammable so the same SM unit can do Ray tracing, DLSS, vectors, rendering, or whatever workload you want it to. This is a true innovation and pro-consumer. Why? Because it serves the needs of all, not just a select few, of AMD's customers. AMD also made RTX suite competitive products in a FREE and opensource way, without dedicated hardwhere which requires an AMD chip to enable it (see g sync monitors at a premium requiring Nvidia chips to work vs freesync). And this is "Innovation" because Freesync is now the standard and even Nvidia had to adopt this. You should see that GeForce experience bullshit they tried too. Are all of these examples from Nvidia "innovations"? Could Nvidia been in the lab cooking up true innovations instead of milking it's customers? Yes, they could have. But they made their choices and if it wasn't for AMD's brilliant responses, we as consumers would be MORE fucked. Nvidia's been stealing other people's innovation for decades. See PhysX, TressFX which nvidia rebranded as HairWorks, etc etc etc. What is true innovation in response of this claim? The companies doing the work that Nvidia stole from...PhysX died an early death after "aquisition" or hostile takeover of Ageia. TressFX was open source from AMD. What are examples of innovations competitors made that Nvidia DIDN'T Steal? a unified low level platform/engine for gaming that was open source, baremetal, and offering great performance for consoles + PC hardware. Mantle -> Vulkan. Who made it? AMD. So you tell me, why is it the biggest most profound innovations that benefit most consumers are never from Nvidia, but from competitors? Because Nvidia will only do things that solidify it's market dominance position and increase it's market cap. See CUDA moat. Also, further examples of bad behavior, you will see what Nvidia has done with CUDA is what Intel used to do with bribing OEMs to only advertise and offer Intel products. Punishing your distributers if they dare sell any competitor products. That isn't innovation my friend, its crooked. Jensen is the world's best salesman today and that is why Nvidia has risen to where it is today. But make no mistake about it, once the party is over and shareholders are no longer rich... Oh will they be quick to crucify him.
bruh, we ai engineers dont deploy models on RTX or GTX devices. We deploy them on on-prem/huge GPUs in the clouds that are dominated by NVIDIA -- V100, A10G, etc. AMD doesn't even have a presence on that at all. It's not just CUDA too. The ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, Pytorch, and JAX have to create entire codes to communicate with non-CUDA applications similar to how they do it with Apple Silicon using MPS. NVIDIA's moat is ridiculously difficult to overcome. Moreover, TPUs are Google products which means you have to run youyr code on Google Cloud instead of having versatility using available NVIDIA GPUs on Amazon, Azure (Microsoft), Google, etc.
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