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christina97 | 5 months ago

The A100 came out 5.5 years ago and is still the staple for many AI/ML workloads. Even AI hardware just doesn’t depreciate that quickly.

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Ianjit|5 months ago

Users are waiting for Blackwell. Then Rubin. CRWV depreciates GPUs over 6 years. Rails last a lot longer.

oblio|5 months ago

Don't they degrade physically from being run at full blast 24/7 for so many years?

the-grump|5 months ago

Not nearly as badly if you keep them cool.

littlestymaar|5 months ago

Unless you care about FLOP/Watt, which big players definitely do.

christina97|4 months ago

No more than 5-10% of the hourly cost of an A100 will be in actual power. It’s not a big factor.

dzhiurgis|5 months ago

This. There’s even a market for them being built (DRW).