Can't wait!

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Absolutely! New ones will be much cheaper, and that’ll be awesome.

But the used gpu market has been trash since crypto mining became a thing. Not worth the money to buy something that’s been worked to within an inch of its EOL.

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For a lemon? Cheap is still too expensive.

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I'll never buy used tires, underwear or gpus haha

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How much if a discount are you expecting to start gaming on a 30k card with no video output?

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Multiple outlets including LTT and Gamers Nexus have debunked this.

The only thing you may have to do if you notice unusual performance is reapply thermal paste to the GPU, and that’s only because most thermal paste will dry out after years of sitting around or being used

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Aw, I was hoping the whole thing would rhyme after the first line.

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Not for gaming, for running AI open source models and other AI shenanigans. My 4080 Super has been filling my gaming needs and will for years to come, but it's not enough for my AI interests lol

The most I can get out of this 4080 is running a ~7B param model, but I want to run cooler shit like that new open source DeepSeek v3 that dropped the other day.

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I'm worried their operating costs are higher than they admit. They keep dumbing down the AI to make it use less energy. Right now it's a free product that uses a crazy high amount of electricity. They don't seem all that close to profitability.

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Why do people care about powerful GPUs? Just use whatever works.

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So you're waiting for the AI bubble to burst because you can't wait to run all the cool new AI models?

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Gaming aside, powerful GPUs are useful for a lot of work like 3D graphics, video editing, neural networks, and a lot of stuff i don't know about

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Some things like vr also just barely work without a powerful GPU

I have a 3060 but with the sheer number of pixels that my reverb g2 has its really not enough

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Yea, the underlying tech is what interests me and I have a few potential use cases. Use cases that I would never entrust a random company with. For example, the concept of MS recall is cool, I'd never trust Microshits implementation though.

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As little downtime as possible is actually better than having more downtime, as the major problems come from heating/cooling cycles

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Lol no, I mean it would be a bubble if it didn't provide anything useful, or transformative, but that's far from the truth.

Like it or not, even LLMs have been found to help in health treatments, mental support , workplace efficiency and so on

AI is here to stay, it's basically the next industrial revolution

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That's the problem. If the use case is super cool, and 99% of people have no knowledge (or motivation) to set it up for themselves, the online services will keep existing, and the bubble won't really burst.

Even if some single companies fail (and they will, there some truly horrendous ideas getting funding), the big players will buy the GPUs wholesale before they hit ebay.

XIIIesq

AI is in it's "Wright Flyer" stage, just as people in the twenties would have found it hard to comprehend commercialised flight or a man on the moon, people struggle to imagine the future of AI.

AI is the very worse it's going to be today, in the grand scheme of things, it's only going to get better.