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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Sep-2025 22:10:12 JST Rich Felker

   If GPUs primarily exist for "AI" data center garbage now, does that mean gamer rigs are some sort of undead animated from parts of AI corpses?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Sep-2025 22:30:49 JST Rich Felker

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     @cadey Lobotomized AI zombies.

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     Xe :verified: (cadey@pony.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Sep-2025 22:30:50 JST Xe :verified:

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     @dalias no lol, gaming GPUs don't have enough VRAM. You need like 80Gi for langle mangle crap, the gamerest of GPUs only has 32Gi.

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     Chris (chrisvest@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 01:41:37 JST Chris

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     @cadey @dalias the compute cores are slower than they otherwise could’ve been for games, because they spend more area on small bit width compute like FP16 or smaller, which isn’t used by anything else but AI. I heard from an HPC guy that FP64 has plateaued, if not even dropped, in the last few generations.