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160 points redohmy | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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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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1. 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.