Also, this has been the case (or at least planned) for a while.
Pascal (the GTX 1000 series) and Ampere (the RTX 3000 series) used the exact same architecture for datacenter/gaming. The big gaming dies were dual use and datacenter-optimized. This habit sort of goes back to ~2008, but Ampere and the A100 is really where “datacenter first” took off.
AMD announced a plan to unify their datacenter/gaming architecture awhile ago, and prioritized the MI300X before that. And EPYC has always been the priority, too.
Intel wanted to do this, but had some roadmap trouble.
These companies have always put datacenter first, it just took this much drama for the consumer segment to largely notice.
Also, this has been the case (or at least planned) for a while.
Pascal (the GTX 1000 series) and Ampere (the RTX 3000 series) used the exact same architecture for datacenter/gaming. The big gaming dies were dual use and datacenter-optimized. This habit sort of goes back to ~2008, but Ampere and the A100 is really where “datacenter first” took off.
AMD announced a plan to unify their datacenter/gaming architecture awhile ago, and prioritized the MI300X before that. And EPYC has always been the priority, too.
Intel wanted to do this, but had some roadmap trouble.
These companies have always put datacenter first, it just took this much drama for the consumer segment to largely notice.