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Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity
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He's not wrong
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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I legit tried to understand how a lackluster VRAM capacity could spy on us.
Just wanna say, cool username
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The video card monopoly (but also other manufacturers) have been limiting functionality for a long time. It started with them restricting vGPU to enterprise garbage products, which allows Linux users to virtualize their GPU for things like playing games with near-native speeds using Windows on Linux. This is one of the big reasons Windows still has such a large marketshare as the main desktop OS.
Now they want to restrict people running AI locally so that they get stuck with crap like Copilot-enabled PCs or whatever dumb names they want to come up. These actions are intentional. It is anti-consumer & anti-trust, but don't expect our government to care or do anything about it.
So to put the likelihood of this in perspective, let me just repeat it to see if I understand the claim.
You're saying that one of the big reasons of Windows' market share is how artificially inefficient it is to install Linux, spin up a Virtual Machine, run Windows inside THAT and then run a game?
That's the mainstream use case that is propping up Windows adoption in this scenario?
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Was this written by AI? The headline word salad contains all the buzzwords.
Edward Snowden PILEDRIVES the Nvidia RTX 50 series into a crowded bitcoin farm
"Trash fuckin cuck card kys"
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How would Snowden get a hold of one of these in Russia? Maybe through an intermediary in Kazakhstan?
Then again it's hard finding one here even in the US since they all went out of stock within 5 minutes of being listed.
According to russian over at r/hardware GPUs have become cheaper in Russia since the ban as they are now being smuggled instead of imported via Europe with all extra cost that implies.
That doesn't make sense or I'm reading it wrong
Legal weed is more expensive sometimes
Smugglers take less money than government apparently
So now we care what Edward Snowden says about vram? We need him to tell us that it should be 24 gigs?
Yeah that does seem a bit weird, my four year old RX 6800 has 16 GB VRAM already
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Wait, did the guy refuse to call AMD's 9070 by its official name out of spite there at the end? Is this a weird tech The Onion thing?
AMD, as usual, misses an opportunity here. The 5xxx series is exactly Fermi again (they even removed hotspot data so reviewers would miss the throttling). AMD could leverage the nostalgia of one of ATI's best gens and call the cards 9700 and 9700pro. Damn, those were the days. (since 4750 conflicts with current scheme)
Probably a mistake, considering the current generation follows the RX 7_00 naming pattern.
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You're about 30 years too late, but I'm glad you're finally here