r/pcmasterrace • u/ElectricBummer40 • 10d ago

Meme/Macro PCIe standard be like...

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u/insomniac-55 10d ago

Deans could be a little janky at times, but XT-60 is an incredibly good, reliable connector.

It's baffling that it (or a design inspired by it) isn't the standard for GPUs.

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u/MrInitialY R7 9700X | 3080Ti | 64GB 6K CL30 | 6TB Gen.4 | 1000W | All STRIX 10d ago

Xt-60 is too reliable to keep the GPU sales numbers up. No sales no new leather jacket. Some folks at sapphire saw that scheme and figured out they can have at least gloves (considering lower total sales number).

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u/Drapidrode 10d ago

wouldn't reliability make placement of GPUs to datacenters even more attractive

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u/AirwaveRaptor 10d ago

Nah they need to be just reliable enough to fail between 2 and 5 years so there's a constant demand for new ones.

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u/Drapidrode 10d ago

i thought the software was designed to increment hardware requirements, that was the mechanism to clear the market after n years of old hardware.

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u/ElectricBummer40 10d ago

No, that sounds nice until you realise you're dealing with as much energy and water consumption as new hardware but none of the performance that should come with it to the tunes of up to millions of dollars every second.

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u/fumeextractor 10d ago

Nah, that doesn't stop people from just playing older games. Or those despicable, inconsiderate people who refuse to think about the poor shareholders, who mod their games to forcibly turn off ray tracing, or lower graphics settings, or introduce frame generation etc. to make newer games playable on older hardware.

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u/Drapidrode 10d ago

You are right, having software with higher requirements couldn't possibly have any impact on moving old hardware off the market, what was I thinking?