Gaming makes a comeback in Nvidia's AI-dominated empire

[erickmendes]

I just fail to understand how and why TechSpot would put such a misleading title to this article.

Well... We just had some inside look of NVidia tactics over reviewers, trying to force Gamer's Nexus and others to shed a good light on the lackluster 5060... I really wouldn't be surprised if media is now trying to bright shiny lights on NVidia on every possible occasion...

Because a poor 5060 review can affect sales but a poor Q1 report can affect stocks.

And for anyone saying that we gamers are crying... Take a look at Steve from Gamer Nexus and Steve from Hardware Unboxed about NVidia handling of the gaming market... Entry level GPUs are still carved into 8GB VRAM age and now GPU power is reliant on AI prowess...

NVidia AI market is 10x bigger then gaming... NVidia used to sell gaming GPUs, now it sell AI accellerators that happens to improve gaming performance... And every gen NVidia GPUs are more about AI and less about GPU.

I think in the end what may come to rescue us gamers is ARM... The asian hardware makers don't care to take risks, I wouldn't be surprised if we see an beefed up GPU monstrositie based on ARM in the form of a sff arm pc to run Steam OS, Windows ARM.

Seems like NVidia itself is wetting it's toe in the "CPU" market, I've heard something about it.

 

[captaincranky]

I think in the end what may come to rescue us gamers is ARM... The asian hardware makers don't care to take risks, I wouldn't be surprised if we see an beefed up GPU monstrositie based on ARM in the form of a sff arm pc to run Steam OS, Windows ARM.

Intel could rescue gamers as well, save for their herky-jerky, stop and start approach to GPU R&D, as well as supply and software issues with their cards.

As "fate" would have it, Nvidia has adopted Apple-esque price hikes when bumping cards from 8 GB to 16 GB of VRAM. Proof of that can be found in both price and availability between the 4060 8 GB & 16 GB models.