Damn, the things used to be these thin little, well, cards. Nowadays they are reaching the size of entire consoles and can more accurately be called graphics bricks. Is the tech so stagnant that they won't be getting smaller again in the future?
The high end ones are so huge, power hungry, and fucking expensive that I'm starting to think they might as well just come with an integrated CPU and system RAM (in addition to the VRAM) on the same board.
What is the general industry expectation of what GPUs are going to be like in the mid term future, maybe 20 to 30 years from now? I expect if AI continues to grow in scope and ubiquity, then a previously unprecedented amount of effort and funding is going to be thrown at R&D for these PC components that were once primarily relegated to being toys for gamers.
I installed a 3080 in my friends pc ages ago and I was kinda like “damn is the port gonna hold this thing up?”
Lol, not sure if you're even aware but: vertical mounting has become a big trend in PC enthusiasts due to this factor. I have one of these on my 4090 rig:
https://a.co/d/byT81Fw
I wasn’t, haven’t really kept up too much with current trends bc tbh I can’t afford anything so I’m just vibing with what I got, but I’m totally not surprised to see that, it felt pretty dicey at the time and it’s my understanding that the 40 series are even larger lol.
Yeah the 3080 is a chonker, but the 4090 is just fucking huge, it's like a mid sized console just sitting in your PC. It's between a Wii and a PS2