By: Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com), November 3, 2020 5:08 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Paul (pavel.delete@this.noa-labs.com) on November 3, 2020 2:19 am wrote:
> Not every person buying video cards is into "X7R33M G4M1NG," or even into gaming as such.
> There are quite a number of uses of consumer grade cards for things other than gaming.
>
Really? Like what? 99.99% of non-gaming "consumer" use cases are covered by a basic integrated GPU. It needs to encode/decode video using dedicated hardware blocks (not general purpose shaders), and render Facebook smoothly.
Consumers aren't running GPU accelerated workloads in Adobe software. Consumers aren't running non-gaming AR or VR on their PC. What other GPU heavy workloads does a standard consumer run?
> Not every person buying video cards is into "X7R33M G4M1NG," or even into gaming as such.
> There are quite a number of uses of consumer grade cards for things other than gaming.
>
Really? Like what? 99.99% of non-gaming "consumer" use cases are covered by a basic integrated GPU. It needs to encode/decode video using dedicated hardware blocks (not general purpose shaders), and render Facebook smoothly.
Consumers aren't running GPU accelerated workloads in Adobe software. Consumers aren't running non-gaming AR or VR on their PC. What other GPU heavy workloads does a standard consumer run?