9 Did you know there is currently a video card shortage? Did you know that video cards are instrumental in creating deep fakes? Think about that. Everything we are seeing could be fake. (www.thegamer.com) posted 83 days ago by sumthinrandom 83 days ago by sumthinrandom +10 / -1 13 comments share 13 comments share save hide report block hide child comments Comments (13) sorted by: top new old worst You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread. ▲ 6 ▼ – B4S3D-P4TR10T 6 points 83 days ago +6 / -0 Its mostly because of crypto mining permalink save report block reply ▲ 0 ▼ – sumthinrandom [S] 0 points 83 days ago +2 / -2 I'm betting that's the cover story. That sounds much better than AMD and Nvidia selling all their cards to a few people. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 1 ▼ – buckfoomers 1 point 83 days ago +2 / -1 Why would they buy relatively crappy consumer-level cards when they have fucking supercomputers? permalink parent save report block reply ▲ -1 ▼ – sumthinrandom [S] -1 points 83 days ago +1 / -2 Super computers aren't good at regular tasks that you would do on a PC. They are designed for AI and more highly complex mathematical problems. permalink parent save report block reply
Its mostly because of crypto mining
I'm betting that's the cover story. That sounds much better than AMD and Nvidia selling all their cards to a few people.
Why would they buy relatively crappy consumer-level cards when they have fucking supercomputers?
Super computers aren't good at regular tasks that you would do on a PC. They are designed for AI and more highly complex mathematical problems.