Fundamentals dictate hardware is a depreciating asset, they're not wrong. They're just ignoring the reality of the current market.

This was true when Moores law wasn't dead. Per watts performance has been flat since Ampere. There is a reason why undervolted 3090s are still used.

GPUs do have a life expectancy. They don’t run forever, especially at high temperatures and full utilization.

	▲	noosphr 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You undervolt them because the last 50% of power adss 10% of compute.