Interesting. Does nvidia offer control? Last time I checked they arbitrarily updated their drivers to degrade unwelcome use case ( in that case, for crypto ). It sounds to me like the opposite of that.

Separately, do you think they won't try to ingratiate themselves to gamers again once AI market changes?

Do you not think they are part of the cartel anyway ( and the DIY market exists despite that )?

<< So DIY market is gone.

How? One use case is gone. Granted, not a small one and one with an odd type of.. fervor, but relatively small nonetheless. At best, DIY market shifts to local inference machines and whatnot. Unless you specifically refer to gaming market..

<< That kills lots of companies and creators that rely on the gaming market.

Markets change all the time. EA is king of the mountain. EA is filing for bankruptcy. Circle of life.

Edit: ALso, upon some additional consideration and in the spirit of christmas, fuck the streamers ( aka creators ). With very, very limited exceptions, they actively drive what is mostly wrong with gaming these days. Fuck em. And that is before we get to the general retardation they contribute to.

<< It’s a doom spiral for a lot of the industry.

How? For AAA? Good. Fuck em. We have been here before and were all better for it.

<< If gaming is just PlayStation and switch and iGPUs there is a lot less innovation in pushing graphics.

Am I reading it right? AMD and Intel is just for consoles?

<< It will kill the hobby.

It is an assertion without any evidence OR a logical cause and effect.

So far, I am not buying it.