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(I'm not super informed in this space) AWS WorkSpaces purports to have machines with meaty GPU's, are they not powerful enough?
by stickydink 6y ago
(I'm not super informed in this space)
AWS WorkSpaces purports to have machines with meaty GPU's, are they not powerful enough?
- Grakel 6y agoI'm sure they are, I just need to make the leap. :)
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoMost cloud GPUs are just thin-sliced datacenter GPUs which only have one redeaming quality: high RAM per PCIe slot. The $100,000 GPU can be beaten by a $5,000 consumer space CPU for raw compute but is basically 3 to 4 times the amount of RAM.
- cameronh90 6y agoThe problem with AWS Workspaces for us was the price was just too damn high. Their Graphics Pro instance was okay spec: 16 vCPU, 122 GB memory, 8 GB VRAM. But they charge $1000/month for it. Our $3000 workstations beat it in every benchmark, sometimes by 3-5x and have a useful lifetime of at least three years. I'm sure for some people, that is a valid trade off, but for us, it was just too much.
- jrgilman 6y agoAre you rendering 24/7....?
- skytrue 6y agoThere's a niche in the space for workspaces that support "low intensity 3D applications" with 99.99% uptime. Right now, all the major cloud vendors (AWS/Azure/GCP) are prohibitive with respect to pricing. I can spend $600 to buy a dedicated machine to run my GPU-bound workload 24 hours a day, or spend $600/month to have a dedicated GPU instance. Things like Paperspace don't cater to this particular workload, still. I've honestly thought about creating a new PaaS provider that attacks this niche. Seems doable.