Comment by marcosdumay
Comment by marcosdumay 10 hours ago
Historically, GPUs have improved in efficiency fast enough that people retired their hardware in way less than 5 years.
Also, historically the top of the line fabs were focused on CPUs, not GPUs. That has not been true for a generation, so it's not really clear if the depreciation speed will be maintained.
> that people retired their hardware in way less than 5 years.
those people are end-consumers (like gamers), and only recently, bitcoin miners.
Gamers don't care for "profit and loss" - they want performance. Bitcoin miners do need to switch if they want to keep up.
But will an AI data center do the same?