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		somenameforme on March 10, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023) These are very different stats. He was referring to unit sales of GPUs, not $ sales. The A100 is a $8000+ video card and so cards like it are going to dominate in revenue, even if their sales numbers are relatively low. For contrast the most popular card, per the Steam hardware survey, is (inexplicably - probably because of prepackaged kits) the RTX 4060, which is a $300 card.

adastra22 on March 10, 2025 | [–]

It is the stat that matters in business. NVIDIA is now an AI company with a small graphics card side hustle.

genewitch on March 10, 2025 | [–]

4060 was probably the only 4000 series GPU available for a while, too.

I have a 3090 for AI and gaming and I haven't seen a reason to "upgrade" yet. In fact, I might try and get a 3090ti instead.

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