A whole different department made those decisions and I don't think they had any idea of what is actually needed. They wanted to buy such a GPU because training

A whole different department made those decisions and I don't think they had any idea of what is actually needed. They wanted to buy such a GPU because training your own model is a trendy thing and they wanted to stay within their budget (mostly used up by the GPU). I'm just trying to scramble together something from the hacked together thing I now have to deal with.