Yes, that's why you'd choose AMD, I'm saying that you don't enter the ecosystem for the first time by purchasing the absolute cutting edge hardware.
As far as I'm aware you can't simply buy an Nvidia B200 PCIe card over the counter, either.
As far as I'm aware you can't simply buy an Nvidia B200 PCIe card over the counter, either.
You can purchase H100 and A100 PCIe cards over the counter. They're great for compiling CUDA code, testing code before you launch a multi-node job into a cluster, and for running evaluations.
AMD has nothing of the sort, and it's hurting them.
I cannot blow 250K on an SMCI server, nor do I have the electricity setup for it. I can blow 20K on a PCIe GPU and start contributing to the ecosystem, or maybe prove out an idea on one GPU before trying to raise millions from a VC to build a more cost-effective datacenter that actually works.
What are you talking about? Have you looked?
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/amd-mi210-300w-pcie-64gb-pas...
https://www.bitworks.io/product/amd-instinct-mi210-64gb-hbm2...