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4-5 years for GPU being outdated is a bit ... outdated. 3090 from 2020 still get sold for more than the release price
by yread 4mo ago
4-5 years for GPU being outdated is a bit ... outdated. 3090 from 2020 still get sold for more than the release price
- x_may 4mo agoYeah, but this is partly due to there being a shortage of entry level GPUs for consumers. NVIDIA has literally stopped manufacturing them. There are massive numbers of data centre GPUs sitting in hyperscaler warehouses waiting to be deployed in a data centre. They may never be deployed because there’s more GPU than DC space and you want your most efficient GPUs in the active slots.
- yread 4mo agoRTX A6000 or A100 from 2020 also sells for more than the release price
- Hendrikto 4mo ago1. We are talking about datacenter GPUs here, not consumer ones. 2. Datacenters are currently extremely power-limited. Efficiency is king.
- throwawayffffas 4mo agoOh I am not talking about the cards becoming obsolete, that is a concern, but the main issue is that GPUs fail in large numbers after a few years in datacenters. That is mostly because they are run 24/7 at the peak of their thermal envelopes and eventually components fail.
- gorgmah 4mo agoThere is also a significant amount of accounting fraud happening right now, according to Michael Burry: https://x.com/michaeljburry/status/1987918650104283372?lang=en https://x.com/michaeljburry/status/1987918650104283372?lang=... The comments to his tweet, if true, tend to say that the real lifespan of an AI chip tends to be around 1 to 3 years in reality, since racks don't cool down that well. Not sure if these commenters are a reliable source though lol. https://x.com/xdire_me/status/1987920424978837711 https://x.com/xdire_me/status/1987920424978837711
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