alt Hacker NewsI really don’t want to give anyone ideas, but doesn’t this make the Nvidia 5090 an unbelievably good deal right now?
The VRAM in the 5090 is only made by one country in the world.
The 50xx series is special, because its ram is so dependent on a single commodity. It’s not like a 4090 or a 3090; their VRAM chips have been around for years.
If there’s a shortage or interruption in DDR7 VRAM, it seems like every GPU that requires it would explode in value.
I hope I don’t regret posting this because I’d really like to buy one myself…
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if you can buy one!
The RTX 5090 is faster than an H200. It just has less ram (32 vs 141), doesn't have NVLink, and technically isn't allowed to be used in a datacenter.
The datacenter GPUs sell at an 80% margin. They're incredibly overpriced. But the laws of supply and demand are undefeated and so here we all are.
An unbelievably good deal at $4000 plus?