alt Hacker NewsIt can also be a way to make the numbers look bigger for everyone...
Rather than sell a GPU at $500, instead you put the price up to $2000 but then invest in a startup on condition 80% of the investment is used to buy your hardware at inflated prices.
Arguably this is what's happening to 'datacenter' GPU's which are far more expensive than consumer ones for similar performance.
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dannyw • today at 1:26 PM
Are they still? At latest retail prices of 5090s, the economics don't seem to reflect that much of a discount; especially when you consider the half-rate BF16/FP16/etc accumulation (which has not been hacked/unlocked yet).
Even 5060 Ti 16GBs are at 1.8x MSRP.
> Arguably this is what's happening to 'datacenter' GPU's which are far more expensive than consumer ones for similar performance
What's an example of a datacenter GPU that has the same performance of a retail GPU but sold at a much steeper price?