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I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 (blog.tymscar.com)
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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But here is the thing: this is a Volta GPU with 16GB of HBM2 memory, 5120 CUDA cores, and I picked it up for about £150 on eBay. The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

It’s AI slop. You’re blind.

[–] Epp@lemmus.org -1 points 1 day ago

🤣

I feel so bad for you. You're going to see AI over every shoulder, in every mirror, and every voice. Stop trying to guess now, or you'll soon be insane.