| ▲ | marcosdumay 9 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Historically, GPUs have improved in efficiency fast enough that people retired their hardware in way less than 5 years. Also, historically the top of the line fabs were focused on CPUs, not GPUs. That has not been true for a generation, so it's not really clear if the depreciation speed will be maintained. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | chii 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
> that people retired their hardware in way less than 5 years. those people are end-consumers (like gamers), and only recently, bitcoin miners. Gamers don't care for "profit and loss" - they want performance. Bitcoin miners do need to switch if they want to keep up. But will an AI data center do the same? | ||||||||||||||
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