Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:36:39 UTC No. 955421

>>955419
They are cheaper but still allow you to play tons of games.
It is better to keep them in stock to still appeal to poor customers instead of only offering the high end shit since otherwise you ignore a very sizable market segment. If a competitor takes over that segment they might start rivaling other segments that are very profitable for you.
Read up on some of the standard fags like Michael Porter if you wanna get a basic understanding on how businesses operate.

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:51:32 UTC No. 955430

>>955419
because virtually no good games have come out in the last 20 years.

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:57:42 UTC No. 955433

>>955430
You don't like videogames. Even F2P games like Cod:Warzone, Fortnite, (Project L soon), etc are better than "classic" games like HL1/2, any Halo, any Quake

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:21:16 UTC No. 955435

>>955430
skill issue

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:23:19 UTC No. 955436

>>955430
exactly

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:34:26 UTC No. 955439

depends what you mean by low-end
gtx 1030? pretty much useless
gtx 710? e-waste
Buying an used card would be a much better choice at that price point

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:50:22 UTC No. 955446

>gtx 710? e-waste
That's what I thought.

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:53:10 UTC No. 955447

>>955421
But are there any professionals applications? A secondary system for rendering or whatever?

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:56:32 UTC No. 955451

>>955447
Soon _everyone_ will be rendering on the cloud via ai for both content production and content consumption

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:45:34 UTC No. 955463

>>955419
They're for office workstation boxes that have explicit but sometimes nonsensical requirements.
- could require VGA or DVI out because all the projectors and monitors use those
- could require fitting into a low-profile slot, use only a single case slot, or have a low power budget because of non-standard OEM PSU form factor
- could need to support twelve screens for lots of graphs like in stock trading or surveillance
- could require compatibility with a very specific driver for a weird non-windows OS
- could require Phys-X or OpenCL for just one design application
- could require enterprise driver features like virtualization extensions
- maybe it's just cheaper when using binned parts
- maybe we literally just need MS office and don't give a fuck about the task bar not being transparent so the GPU doesn't need to support that
- what do you think drives all those TVs that play big buck bunny on loop at the electronics store?
- maybe our systems need two GPUs so that the desktop can't crash the NN training job
- nVidia made a good offer (because the higher-ups don't know intel chips already have iGPUs)
- producing e-waste is actually a security feature
- the gaming performance is deliberately shit so nobody will steal these things
- office equipment has noise level regulations so we only buy things with passive cooling
- where am I supposed to plug my wacom if my GPU doesn't have USB-C?
etc etc

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:49:05 UTC No. 955464

>>955463
>- where am I supposed to plug my wacom if my GPU doesn't have USB-C?

you're so full of it

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:49:54 UTC No. 955465

>>955447
As >>955451 stated, complex things are not done on prem much anymore, at least by medium to corporation sized companies.
If you are some pajeet who uses the old versions of photoshop you can easily get away with using equally old graphics cards since most of the tools that are important are still there.

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:21:30 UTC No. 955473

>>955419
There are iGPUs today more powerful than those and don't take up a PCIe slot.

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:24:30 UTC No. 955474

>>955435
exactly, nothing is a challenge anymore.

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:24:48 UTC No. 955475

>>955473
they don't allow for dual monitors

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:09:43 UTC No. 955729

>>955419
A graphics card is actually a combination of multiple systems encompassing graphics, such as acting as a display adapter, 3D accelerator, and media encoder, the reason the 710 is still made is because it makes for a cheap display adapter, some CPUs didn't (And some still don't) have an iGPU, a cheap card like this makes sense if you just want something to get video out of, and if the CPU is old enough the h264 decoding capabilities of the 710 may be an upgrade

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:51:51 UTC No. 955739

>>955473
It used to be that only lower-end Ryzen CPUs would come with a GPU. I assume Intel Xeons may not have a GPU either.

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 16:21:32 UTC No. 955751

Does anyone have a 4090? Are they worth it?
I'm a poorfag with a 1080 and I'm thinking of selling everything I own to try and scrape up money for a 4090 and a computer to around it.
I recognise that it's overkill, but I want overkill after having to put with how slow my machine is.

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:44:38 UTC No. 955883

>>955751
A 1080 is far from slow, if you can't make enough money with a 1080 to buy an upgrade, a 4090 won't help your situation

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:02:20 UTC No. 955892

>>955883
what about a 1050?

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:20:19 UTC No. 955895

>>955892
It's not particularly fast but it's not impossible to work with, using Blender as an example, it likely beats using your CPU for rendering (I doubt you'd have a newer workstation processor or a new gen i7 if you're still on a 1050), and if your work isn't making renders but making assets/characters, it's perfectly useable

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:39:20 UTC No. 955933

>>955883
It's too slow to actually work in cycles and see what I'm doing.
But you're probably right.

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:19:26 UTC No. 955942

>>955895
thanks, anon

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:25:06 UTC No. 955944

>>955933
So use eevee you idiot

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:31:03 UTC No. 955945

>>955944
brilliant idea, retard

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:06:15 UTC No. 955947

>>955430
good games have come out, but not enough to justify buying a huge expensive graphic card and on the indie sides graphics aren't as demanding as the AAA slops

Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:06:52 UTC No. 955948

>>955945
I had to remind you, remember this

Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:46:16 UTC No. 955984

>>955933
I managed to scrape by enough from commissions with a 1060 6GB to afford a 3060 12 GB, just work in Eevee, do smaller test renders in Cycles to see what you're actually doing, and leave it overnight for the final render
>>955942
No problem anon

Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:43:26 UTC No. 955995

>>955984
what kind of commissions did you do?

Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:03:49 UTC No. 955997

>>955995
VTuber models+a few backgrounds

Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:34:19 UTC No. 956056

>>955419
low end graphics cards are built out of the many defective components that get produced by accident