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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago (9 children)

My only hope for this is that the GPUs in these CDO spiritual successors become dirt cheap afterwards.

They hopefully will, since the end of the AI bubble will kill AI for good and crash GPU demand.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Somebody gotta adapt them to boards with actual video outputs tho

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's gotta be at least two nVidia engineers who have a board planned out for that just as a hobby project they wanted to benchmark.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very true. I think one of the possible low-key outcomes of the bubble is a rise both in open-source driver hacking and manufacture-on-demand PCBs to accommodate what would otherwise be high-dollar e-waste.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

isn't openai silicon breaking all the time because it's so overheated? so they have to replace it a lot of the time? maybe it's only good for some months

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or their cooling design stinks, or they/Nvidia are just telling the fab we don't care about yields, just send us everything that powers on and we'll figure out which ones are good in production

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

basically. Nvidia sometimes has off years, where a processor generation doesn't work out. Unfortunately, this one's coincided with a stupid bubble. So they're shoving out number cruncher cards which are at the limits of what you can do with stacking up the previous generation of chips, and the cards are crappy and have a likely lifetime in months - because they correctly estimate their market doesn't care.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

it's sorta impressive that they're treating their hardware worse than cryptobros then

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