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These AGIs ruining the world in the next 5 years posts are so tired.
Anyways, flagship Nvidia GPUs tend to have 40-50% more compute than their previous generation counterparts. Realistically if you are not going to be doing some mondo gaming, video editing or Deep Learning training/inference, you don't even need a 4090.
In simple words, don't buy a 1500 USD GPU exclusively for AGI worries (buy it for any other reason but that!). And NVIDIA actually did you a solid by clearly demarcating their consumer line of GPUs from the server line quite distinctly (they don't even have video output), if in the near future institutions do limit GPU ownership (which is stupid for many reasons), the consumer line might not really get caught up given the US historically banning the sale of A100s and H100s to China. Your GTX GPUs are probably safe. And Nvidia is not stupid, if such regulations are on passing they can just have a few server GPUs in their lineup and some new "gaming" GPU's that just happen to have a lot of tensor cores, I don't think the bureaucracy would be able to keep up with that.
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