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Old 12-28-2024, 08:11 PM   #3403
Meelapo
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Originally Posted by accord1999 View Post
The "cheap" price of the 4090 is the incentive; its professional sibling the RTX 6000 (which uses the same AD102 chip) retails for around $12K and the 4090 is generally competitive in compute/ML if your memory usage is within the 24 GB range.
Okay. But why would someone need this? What ML work would they be doing? I can’t wrap my head around it. Buying a GPU for something like bitcoin mining is straightforward; you’re using it to turn a profit. But with ML…are people using it to generate money or just create their own ChatGPT for fun?
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