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$2/h rental, not $2 sales price. Pretty misleading.
by askl 2y ago
$2/h rental, not $2 sales price. Pretty misleading.
- pico_creator 2y agoIf we $2 H100 this year or next. Either AI is super dead, or a new alien GPU rained from the sky
- ranger_danger 2y agoBlackwell B100/B200 did kinda rain down, also the AMD MI300X and increased availability of H200. There's also cheaper NVIDIA L40/L40S if you don't need FP64.
- askl 2y agoI'm hoping for the first one
- marcyb5st 2y agoThere's option 3: current capacity is enough for our AI needs and so GPUs now the market is flooded. I think AI is not gonna die even in its current stocastic parrot incarnation. It is a useful tool for some tasks and, albeit not transformative like some CEOs, I believe it's gonna stay. At most I believe we will enter another AI winter until there's the next algorithmic breakthrough.
- friendzis 2y agoCurrent stochastic parrots do not have to be transformative, they have to appear smart enough for a critical mass of dumb enough people. And judging anecdotally from scanning social media - they already do. Even here, on HN, you find numerous comments of the shape: "${my favorite gpt} says this: <insert some gibberish>"
- dangsux 2y ago[dead]
- renewiltord 2y agoBruh
- stego-tech 2y agoAgreed, and I doubt we’ll see one retail at that price even on the secondhand market anytime soon. That said, could I see them being offloaded in bulk for pennies on the dollar if the (presumed) AI bubble pops? Quite possibly, if it collapses into a black hole of misery and bad investments. In that case, it’s entirely plausible that some enterprising homelabs could snatch one up for a few grand and experiment with model training on top-shelf (if a generation old) kit. The SXMs are going for ~$26-$40k already, which is cheaper than the (worse performing) H100 Add-In Card when brand new; that’s not the pricing you’d expect from a “red hot” marketplace unless some folk are already cutting their losses and exiting positions. Regardless, interesting times ahead. We either get AI replacing workers en masse, or a bust of the tech industry not seen since the dot-com bubble. Either way, it feels like we all lose.
- osigurdson 2y ago2 bucks for a GPU? Maybe a PIC microcontroller.
- askl 2y agoThey don't even have HDMI ports so they are pretty useless, but I'd buy one at $2 as a desk ornament.
- qingcharles 2y agoGPU display stand: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1fw68rl/retiring_a_gtx980/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1fw68rl/retiring_a_...
- dchftcs 2y agoYou don't need an HDMI port, you just need a driver to support running the right graphics calculations and producing image to funnel to another output port. The GPU may lack some features, may have an architecture that is bad for rendering, and may be suboptimal in delivering the performance per watt. Exactly like how a CPU doesn't have a display port.
- qingcharles 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41806396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41806396
- qingcharles 2y agoSome of the Tesla GPUs are almost at this price per unit on eBay now. I've seen them go for under $15 online. Here's one for ~$18 inc shipping with 6GB DDR5: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-Tesla-K20X-6GB-90Y2351-C7S15A-Dell-GJD61-GPU-1yr-Warranty-Fast-Ship/156086508249 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-Tesla-K20X-6GB-90Y2351-C7S15...
- barrenko 2y agoAre these a viable buy?
- chessgecko 2y agoYou’d get better perf training on a current gen phone than that gpu, but it probably functions
- pico_creator 2y agoOnly if ur a collector (so no if ur plugging it in)
- pico_creator 2y agoThat hurts - i used those GPUs before at their peak Now any random GPU in the computer store murders it
- chessgecko 2y agoNot just gpus, the k20 was at 3.9 Tflops (fp32) and the new iPhone is at 4.3 (fp16). If you don’t need the precision it got passed by the phones
- dplgk 2y agoIt appears this GPU cost $7700 when it launched in 2012? GPUs have gotten that much better that this thing isn't even with $100?
- squigz 2y agoMisleading? Anyone who read this title and thought it was referring to the full purchase price might deserve to be misled.
- hackernewds 2y agoThat is what the title says explicitly. That's how click bait works
- squigz 2y agoIt also explicitly says "rental", so I'm not sure how one can possibly arrive at the conclusion that they meant "$2 to own an H100"
- gnabgib 2y agoIt didn't say that at the time, the article still has the submitted title: $2 H100s: How the GPU Bubble Burst
- squigz 2y agoEven so, I genuinely don't see how anyone who might be clicking this article could possibly interpret it the way GP is saying.
- cuu508 2y agoWell, case in point, I did. When I read the title I thought – "IIRC these were going for thousands, could they have really dropped so hard? Well, sometimes companies, cars, real estate properties cost $1, but there's always of course a catch. Let's see what the catch is here... <click> ah, it's a 4x reduction of rental price, boring"
- nottorp 2y agoAnyone who isn't an "AI" fanatic can and will interpret the title as the sale price :)
- two_handfuls 2y agoAgreed, "$2/h" would be the correct unit, "$2" reads to me like a typo.