Quote from: Terror Byte on January 16, 2026, 00:52:27

Quote from: opckieran on January 15, 2026, 20:20:29Has the time come for 3-4 years between new consumer GPU releases? If nVidia is cutting supply by as much as 40%, something has to change here.

Maybe a 4-year cycle would mean lazy developers would have to optimise their software rather than relying on hardware to do the heavy lifting.

That'd be ideal, and less new GPU architectures would mean less resources would have to go to optimizing for new architectures in both the software and driver sides.

Quote from: opckieran on January 15, 2026, 20:20:29Has the time come for 3-4 years between new consumer GPU releases? If nVidia is cutting supply by as much as 40%, something has to change here.

Maybe a 4-year cycle would mean lazy developers would have to optimise their software rather than relying on hardware to do the heavy lifting.

8GB GPUs were already considered a poor purchase, but memory chip prices have exploded - so thank $deity for 8GB GPUs are the new standard to preserve profit margins (again)

Has the time come for 3-4 years between new consumer GPU releases? If nVidia is cutting supply by as much as 40%, something has to change here.