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danielv123 t1_jbfqexn wrote

No, like licenses, A100 and H100 cards. H100 is 33k pre tax, each.

They sell them in pre built machines with 8x H100, 8Tbps bidirectional networking, 112 cores, 30TB of nvme storage and 2TB memory. That is 640gb VRAM per machine.

Oh, and they are linked together. They sell hundreds of these machines at a time.

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magnora7 t1_jbfnkiv wrote

I think it's funny how the salaries of everyone but the owners is seen as a fixed asset to be minimized, part of the expense, but the "net profit" is only enjoyed by those at the top of the company. As if human beings who aren't management are a tool like a lathe or a computer that you just buy.

It honestly cracks me up how normalized this is, and how basically no one questions it.

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asclepiannoble t1_jbfm4xd wrote

Inflation-adjusted and tier-matched, GPU prices are definitely not normal :) But I suppose it's true that crypto-driven price inflation at least is no longer the concern now.

Now, it looks more like NVIDIA itself is adjusting the prices to match those at some points of 2021.

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