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jsheardyesterday at 2:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

I think AI may be the only place you could get away with calling a 2x350W GPU rig "modest".

That's like ten normal computers worth of power for the GPUs alone.


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dymkyesterday at 5:35 PM

That's maybe a few dollars to tens of dollars in electricity per month depending on where in the US you live

bigyabaiyesterday at 5:45 PM

> That's like ten normal computers worth of power for the GPUs alone.

Maybe if your "computer" in question is a smartphone? Remember that the M3 Ultra is a 300w+ chip that won't beat one of those 3090s in compute or raster efficiency.

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kataklasmyesterday at 3:50 PM

Did you even try to read and understand the parent comment? They said they regularly run out of quota on the exact subscription you're advising they subscribe to.

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