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by thekombustor 1070 days ago
Nvidia has no motivation to make a consumer card with lots of VRAM, that's basically the only (relevant) separator between the GeForce family and the Quadro lineup.

There are restrictions on NVENC streams with consumer cards, but that has been a solved problem for a while [0].

If they were to make a consumer card with more VRAM, it would immediately undercut their own Quadro/Tesla lineup, which cost substantially more. I don't see a reason for them to do it.

0: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch
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Legend2440 1070 days ago
If NVidia doesn't, somebody else will. Maybe AMD, maybe Apple, maybe Intel.

Apple's neural engine is really interesting as a GPU alternative. It's still just a bunch of tensor cores, but the unified memory architecture allows it to use the full system RAM without a major performance hit. I think we will see more of this in the future.

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hospitalJail 1070 days ago
>Nvidia has no motivation to make a consumer card with lots of VRAM

Money

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whichfawkes 1070 days ago
Presumably they're making a higher margin on the professional cards.
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