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I’s going to be nice to get cheap gpu.
by stoperaticless 2y ago
I’s going to be nice to get cheap gpu.
- Ekaros 2y agoThey might even put reasonable amount of RAM on reasonably priced models... Why can I not get 16GB on some 700€ gaming cpu... I can get CPU+Mobo+32GB ram for around same... I just hope this intentional kneecapping ends so I can get something that can be used for a few years.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoMargins on datacenter GPUs will probably always be better than consumer. As long as thats the case they need to segment to stop datacenters from using consumer products so I've got a feeling that you will never be able to buy a consumer nvidia product with a reasonable amount of RAM. Maybe intel will release one to get some hype for their gpu line?
- loa_in_ 2y agoDoes that mean that datacenter hardware might be a cost wise option for making a home lab PC soon?
- HDThoreaun 2y agoProbably better to just throw your workload on the cloud unless you're using it close to 24/7.
- philistine 2y agoA GPU is an accessory to the real product you’re buying: a driver to interface with your software. Datacenter GPUs have drivers that are woefully inadequate for gaming.
- gopher_space 2y agoI’m just thinking that maybe trading a decent used sedan for a slightly shinier ARPG isn’t the wisest move I could be making.
- eropple 2y agoIf you can't use a "reasonably priced model" GPU for "a few years", I'm really confused as to what you're doing. I know people still using 1080's and 1080Ti's and playing pretty much anything they want to, and I only just upgraded from a 2070 Super to a 7800 XT (with 16GB of RAM on it, even) this summer.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoI assume the consumer GPU and data center products have minimal overlap. If NVidia never sold another server product, would that really impact consumers all that much?
- keyringlight 2y agoThere isn't infinite production/packaging capability, and they're going to prioritize the customers willing to pay more for the chips they get out of a wafer. Another aspect is that the chips are different between compute and consumer, as opposed to something like a Zen chip where it can be used in either Epyc or Ryzen.
- Devasta 2y agoI don't know, when bitcoin crashed there were a flood of clapped out wrecked GPUs on the market but nothing that I'd risk buying. Same'll happen here.
- joezydeco 2y agoIs it possible to use an H100 as a gaming GPU? That would be neat to see. Oh. It's been tried: https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-ultra-expensive-h100-hopper-gpu-gets-tested-in-games/ https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-ultra-expensive-h100-hopper-...
- fennecfoxy 2y agoI don't think it would work as well as a 4090 that has almost as many shader cores, and quite a few more cuda cores than h100. Seems the pros of an h100 over a 4090 are: much higher vram, much faster vram, technologies like nvlink available, and a focus on lower precision performance more useful for ML (as opposed to 4090s focus on fp32).
- porphyra 2y agoI have no idea what I would do if cheap GH200s started showing up on Ebay. They would probably need some crazy cooling and interconnect to get working. I guess it would be the ultimate "localllama" machine.