Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators
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Thousands of GeForce RTX 4090 transformed into AI accelerators.

This is the reason why you can’t find ones in your local best buy. They are paying premium for it. But it indeed is very helpful, if I can get my hand on a few for my build.

  • azriel777@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    China has a lot of used crypto GPU farms where you had racks of GPU’s chugging away at crypto crunching. How hard would it be to convert them for A.I, use?

    • ElectroFried@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That ‘depends’. Most of the crypto farms run on low cost motherboard/cpu combos with 8+ GPUs essentially connected via a single PCIe lane. If you wanted to do training or even inference on that, you would need to relocate those GPU’s to a more capable system and then limit the number of cards to a maximum of 4 cards per system or less. At which point if you are talking about cards with 8GB or less VRAM you have an expensive to run and set up system with 32GB VRAM and fairly low performance. That is why the higher 16GB+ cards are all disappearing.