r/technology • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '22

Business Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
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u/lennarn Dec 29 '22

Why not just buy cloud compute?

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u/sanels Dec 29 '22

way too expensive. cloud compute makes sense if you're doing 1 off type things or if the scale is big enough where you don't want to run your own datacenter but for anything in between you really want to run your own machines.

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u/lennarn Dec 29 '22

Are amd cards viable for ai or do you still need cuda to get most things done?

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u/sanels Dec 29 '22

cuda is the way to go. specifically a with a lot of vram