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robotnikman

Now if only I could afford 8 RTX PRO 6000's

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Start with 4, see my other comment. The recent GLM, Qwen and DeepSeek releases are amazingly promising.

Now, if I could afford 4...

>Start with 4

Sure, let me just buy $60,000 worth of GPUs to run a *quantized non-frontier model*.

For that price you could:

- put a down payment on a home in a large % of the US

- buy a brand new car in cash (possibly two!)

- take a long sabbatical and travel the world

- pay all 4 years or your child's college tuition

Yeah, but this is HN, and none of those things are gonna 10x your B2B SaaS startup, or help you maximize shareholder value for your employer

I mean, I can't afford a new F80, but you don't see me going out of my way to post on /r/Ferrari about it. I seriously do not understand the point of these posts.

The topic of the story is running 8x RTX PRO 6000s, so whining about how much they cost or what you could/should buy instead is completely off-topic.

My bad, didn't mean to derail things with my little quip, for what its worth I did read the article and it was an interesting read. Overall I do hope for more smaller models in the future which I can run on my 3090 that deliver similar performance, or for hardware costs to drop in the next few years to prosumer levels.

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