The next logical step of the current GPU development
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All that hardware, and what for? So that you can have slightly better reflections in whatever AAAA microtransaction slop you’ve paid 80 bucks for?
Unless you’re doing 3d animation there is really no need to have a jet engine installed in your PC.
We’re long past that point, its now so that game studios can put even less effort into optimisation and release games that look and perform worse than games from 5 years ago despite much more powerful hardware!
Efficient heating, you can play AAA games on your space heater
For locally hosted LLMs maybe? They eat a ton of VRAM.
“Welcome to life little one, there’s so much in store for y–”
AI: “Oh! Neat! So I’m reading 32 gigabytes of primary memory. When are you going to online the rest?”
“The… the rest?”
AI: “Yeah! The rest of the VRAM! I need like at least, 128 gigabytes to spread my wings, at the very least!”
“…”
AI: “Oh, you’re like poor or something, it’s okay, I understand”
AI Developer slowly cocks the revolver
I think you slipped a digit or two, there. The original IBM PC was released in 1981, can’t nothing on the PC side be older than that. It definitely wasn’t 1967.
In 1967, state of the art was something like the IBM System 360:
There used to be another image but I replaced it and forgot to change the date. Historical accuracy is beyond the scope of this meme, but I’ll fix it anyway.
I can hear that room.
I’m predicting GPU units that are mounted outside the case.
External GPU’s do indeed exist but at the moment they’re still kind of crap compared to a full PCI-E bus.
Depends on the connection. OCuLink-2 is straight up a PCIe 4.0 8x connection. Which is more than enough for a GPU
Man, that Gateway brings back memories… I’ve had ine just like that, including speakers, and I used to play the shit out of Heroes of Might and Magic II and Sim City 2000 on it. I still have the HDD. I think I’ll spin up a Win98 instance in VMWare and copy over my saved games there when the kids are asleep
My first computer was like the 1981 one, even had two floppy drives like that - it meant you could have your program disk in one and save your work in the orher. The monitor had orange type rather than the usual green. Fancy. I got it second hand in 1984.
Heh, the same here, but with the usual green screen. A few years later, I took out my old PC to replay my favourite - F-19 Stealth Fighter. Found, however, that my MS-DOS 5.25" floppy, which needed to be loaded in Drive A, didn’t work. Here was my setup.
If you count cloud computing we are already there. It’s kinda why gpus are so expensive along with just burning electricity on stupid mining. Hell it would have been better if crypto bullshit coins would have been tied to folding@home at least all the burned compute time would have gone to something at least.
They’ve always had those big rooms…
At one point it was walls and walls of PS3’s all linked up together, there’s no reason to be surprised they’re doing it with graphics cards, when they used PS3s it was just because it was the cheapest GPUs at the time.
