There isn’t much difference at all. Neither should have a cap.
Data moving across a network doesn’t have any per-unit cost to the people operating the network. Whether you use 5TB or 5GB doesn’t impact the bottom line of the ISPs at all.
The only justification for a data cap would be if they’ve overprovisioned their network and sold too many people plans that are too fast for their network to support, so they need to disincentivise people from actually using it. Even then that’s pretty shaky justification.
On top of all the other reasons why that doesn’t disprove anything… we also kind of do. It’s not like the simulation needs to run at “real-time”. The things being simulated will experience time at the simulated rate, regardless of how quickly the simulation is running within its own reality. Could run the whole thing at 5khz, or even by hand as long as it has the storage/memory to persist everything being simulated.
This article needs a clearer title. I agree that upgrading from a 6000 or 3000 series card right now is almost completely pointless, and even going back another generation it’s still not a great proposition. But I know people with “gaming PCs” rocking 1650s or even 1050s. Lots of folks with medium or low end several generations old hardware out there, for whom great upgrade options exist.