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It kinda feels weird that we use the term "GPU" to describe modern cards. Seems to me that there is much more demand for these components in the AI and cryptocoin mining markets than anything utilizing graphics.

I wonder if we're about to witness the second death of PC gaming?



Gaming is bigger than the movie industry at this point. I don't think even a sub-category like PC gaming is going anywhere soon.


While unlikely to disappear completely, it can certainly decline to a much smaller niche. If you recall the state of PC gaming before Steam took off, it was in a decline.


Why? Think about the root of the word "graphics" and why GPUs are well suited to processing ...graphs.

Why would high demand for GPUs signal the death of PC gaming? I would expect the opposite.


I'm not sure what you mean, but the root of graphics is graphikos, Greek for writing or drawing. Mathematical graphs are called that by analogy to their graphical forebears.


You have confused root and origin. The root of graphics is graph.

The comment I replied to said GPUs are more useful in cryptocoin mining and AI rather than graphics. Cryptocoin mining and AI are graph workloads. This is why GPUs are well suited to these tasks.


The root word of graphics is graphic.

The root word of graph is graphic; "graph" is a shortening of the phrase "graphic formula", apparently.


>Seems to me that there is much more demand for these components in the AI and cryptocoin mining markets than anything utilizing graphics.

Only outside home use.


Hardly matters if the components are too expensive for home users to feel comfortable buying them.




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