yeah i'm a fucking retard and completely misread that.
Linus has big number and an audience of retards who're too technically illiterate to install anything but Winblows.
First thing I did was check and yep, ltt covered the MFG in a good light as why a 5070 was = 4090.
Wow it's insane how much performance you can get when you literally don't render native.
Basically I think it is volume thing. Lot of practise work is done on those consumer cards, specially on 90 class. And to produce sufficient quantity you need also other market. So getting CUDA-cards to developers who do light AI work to keep ecosystem dominant you need to sell them cards. And they can't be multi ten-thousand cards. If they didn't have "affordable" cards they might jump somewhere else. And thus bigger product from someone else might come popular.
Volume and marketing. Everyone knows about Intel because they've been THE CPU manufacturer for the past 40 years. Everybody knows Radeon because they've been dominating console gaming since the Wii. Unless you're a PC gamer, an engineer building supercomputers, or a hardcore Nintendo fanboy, though, you don't know who nvidia is. Cutting their gaming division would eliminate any reason that anyone but the biggest, most soy dweebs would have to know who the fuck Jensen Huang is or what his company does. As it stands, at least for now the executives making purchasing decisions and putting ink to paper have sons who are constantly yapping about how they want the latest NVidia card, so that gives them some familiarity with NVidia's name and their general product quality.
Because in addition to volume, marketing, etc. it's also another revenue stream that is fairly low risk due to a lack of competition at the higher end. AMD hasn't produced a card that competes with nvidia's top end for years at this point, and Intel is only on their 2nd generation of cards(and took a decade before getting the first generation out the door) and has finally started to hit the mid range market.
Oh yeah, they've all done it for years now. But even before GN, it was happening whenever HardOCP did something similar. Jay is frankly annoying, doesn't have an original video thought in his head, and just does goofy ridiculous(and horrendously expensive) watercooling builds(unless he finally doesn't have someone to sponsor them anymore after all of the bs with EK). HUB at least created their monitors unboxed channel and provides a niche set of information there that isn't simply copying GN or is just treating components like legos on a weekly basis to make colorful builds to look at like Jay.
Describing Intel as "the CPU manufacturer" for forty years ignores a vast amount of market dominance Intel had, including marketing, The volume often being a result of it.
The price of actual journalism. Faggots like Linus don't have the gumption to do anything but ride their grassroots coattails. See: LTT labs.
Am I a bad person because I'd really like to see him mugged over that card?
It is morally justified to wish for braggards to be humbled
Meanwhile GN is actually looking at products, talking to companies, and producing multiple videos without having 100 employees. Here Steve has a chat with a CTO about a product and their thoughts on fan benchmarks
