Comment by PaulKeeble a day ago
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.
So there aren't actually GPUs, but more like some other architecture for CPUs.
If you can't afford the electricity to afford to run the model on free hardware, you'd certainly never be able to afford the subscription to the same product as a service!
But anyway, the trick is to run it in the winter and keep your house warm.
I don't think I am. I don't think economies of scale on hardware will drive costs below free, and while subscription providers might be willing to offer services below the cost of the hardware that runs them, I don't think they'll offer services below the cost of the electricity that runs them.
And while data centers might sign favorable contracts, I don't think they are getting electricity that far below retail.
A single machine for personal inference on models of this size isn't going to idle at some point so high that electricity becomes a problem and for personal use it's not like it would be under load often and if for some reason you are able to keep it under heavy load presumably it's doing something valuable enough to easily justify the electricity.
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.