Wouldn't that mean an complete mobo replacement to upgrade the GPU? GPU upgrades seem much more rapid and substantial compared to CPU/RAM. Each upgrade would now mean taking out the CPU/RAM and other cards vs just replacing the GPU

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p1esk 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

GPUs completely dominate the cost of a server, so a GPU upgrade typically means new servers.

	▲	BobbyTables2 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Agree - newer GPU likely will need faster PCIe speeds too. Kinda like RAM - almost useless in terms of “upgrade” if one waits a few years. (Seems like DDR4 didn’t last long!)

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chrismorgan 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> GPU upgrades seem much more rapid and substantial compared to CPU/RAM.

I feel like I’ve been hearing about people selling five-to-ten-year-old GPUs for sometimes as many dollars as they bought them for, for the last five years; and people choosing to stay on 10-series NVIDIA cards (2016) because the similar-cost RTX 30-, 40- or 50-series was actually worse, because they’d been putting the effort and expense into parts of the chips no one actually used. Dunno, I don’t dGPU.