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With the memory crisis being, well, a crisis, and the potential of the RTX 3060 making a comeback, the temporary solution may be further optimising older generation graphics cards. Nvidia's Jensen Huang thinks that's "a good idea".

In a Q&A attended by Tom's Hardware, Huang was asked if spinning up production on older GPUs on older process nodes could be a way of combating supply instabilities and the price demands that come with it.

When the RTX 50 series launched, it came with MFG (Multi Frame Generation), which adds three frames for every one 'real' frame. Just this week, it was announced that figure will go all the way up to 6x—five fake frames for every one real one—but MFG is currently only available on RTX 50-series GPUs.

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Huang's comment is interesting as Nvidia's AI performance bumps are linked to specific hardware in the cards. For instance, MFG uses things hardware Flip Metering, which helps with frame pacing. This is only present in Blackwell GPUs. When Huang says bringing newer tech to older cards would need engineering, it's unclear if he's suggesting that engineers can work around hardware limitations, and which ones Nvidia could potentially work around.

Ironically, given the memory shortage is largely caused by huge demand from the AI industry, the problem and temporary solution are both AI-driven.

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