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[–] 49 points 16 hours ago (14 children)
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    Probably not any time soon? China's buying 5090s in bulk to literally remove the chips and transplant them onto server form factor boards for AI.

    The stocks crashed because there's so much competition now and nobody can expect to take the whole market. Deepseek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi are ALL way cheaper than the US counterparts and quite comparable. It's not exciting anymore. When Deepseek R1 came out, everyone thought that Deepseek was going to completely take everything over. Now pretty much everyone is getting close to Claude in performance.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago

    Never. Western capitalists will make Chinese hardware illegal before they allow cheaper goods to undercut their profits. It’s exactly what they’re doing in the auto industry, why should tech be different?

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  • [–] 18 points 7 hours ago

    I'm beginning to suspect never. The industry (read nvidia) got taste for selling stuff in bulk to those who don't care about price and/or quality. They don't want to return to the world where regular people (ew) were their primary source of income. They will find new scam to use their cards on.

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  • [–] 7 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

    Ill take two cheap gpus please

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (4 children)

    You can buy a 16gb v100 in a pcie card for under 400usd or just the gpu for 220usd, unfortunately the price jumps 3x minimum if you want a 32gb version

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  • [–] 10 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    You can buy a 16gb v100

    no thanks, I'd prefer a GPU that can actually process graphics AND DISPLAY THEM....

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  • [–] -4 points 12 hours ago* (1 child)

    I guess you could buy a bc250 or a gameboy if thats important for you, but i doubt theyll show up as a result of chinas datacenter failing so youll just have to wait even more then

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago*

    I'd prefer a gpu meant to drive displays because my friends aren't LLMs and all this absurd garbage has made it impossible to buy 5090s without a mortgage.

    I'd wager the people asking for cheap GPUs above want them for the same.

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