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160 points redohmy | 5 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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hypeatei ◴[21 Nov 25 21:56 UTC] No.46009445[source]▶
Well, patience as a consumer might pay off in the next year or so when the music stops and hyperscalers are forced to dump their inventories.

There still isn't a clear path to profitability for any of these AI products and the capital expenditure has been enormous.

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1. PaulKeeble ◴[21 Nov 25 22:32 UTC] No.46009810[source]▶
Its a bit of a shame these AI GPUs don't actually have displayport/hdmi output ports because they would make for nice cheap and powerful gaming GPUs with a lot of VRAM, they would potentially be really good graphics cards.

Will just have to settle for insanely cheap second hand DDR5 and NVMe drives I guess.

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2. sowbug ◴[21 Nov 25 23:35 UTC] No.46010387[source]▶
I wouldn't mind my own offline Gemini or ChatGPT 5. But even if the hardware and model were free, I don't know how I'd afford the electricity.
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3. GuB-42 ◴[22 Nov 25 00:42 UTC] No.46010886[source]▶
AI GPUs suck for gaming, I have seen a video from a guy playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on a H100 at a whooping 8 FPS! That's after some hacks, because otherwise it wouldn't run at all.

AI GPUs are stripped away of most things display-related to make room for more compute cores. So in theory, they could "work", but there are bottlenecks making that compute power irrelevant for gaming, even if they had a display output.

4. jdprgm ◴[22 Nov 25 01:01 UTC] No.46011035[source]▶
A single machine for personal inference on models of this size isn't going to idle at some point so high that electricity becomes a problem and for personal use it's not like it would be under load often and if for some reason you are able to keep it under heavy load presumably it's doing something valuable enough to easily justify the electricity.
5. mitthrowaway2 ◴[22 Nov 25 02:08 UTC] No.46011409[source]▶
If you can't afford the electricity to afford to run the model on free hardware, you'd certainly never be able to afford the subscription to the same product as a service!

But anyway, the trick is to run it in the winter and keep your house warm.