Yeah, and Qwen 3B that you run on 16GB of VRAM and 10K context length surely is comparable to whatever subscription you're comparing to, that also gives access to 3B parameter models? You might want to take actual use cases into account before you try this scam in real life.

I too did a cost breakdown of buying my GPU for ~10K EUR more than a year ago. It came out "Invaluable" as I use it for analyzing my diary, financials and other private things I cannot send to random 3rd parties.

But even the best of models you can run with 96GB VRAM really doesn't come close to the hosted SOTA models, sadly.

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Kevin_Flynn 4 days ago | parent [-]

> before you try this scam in real life.

What scam are you speaking of ? The return window ?

I don't plan on returning it, unless the economics of upgrading in 89 days favor doing so.

The point was to calculate "my risk" on the transaction.

As for the results of the calculation, I didn't invent math or risk.

For $80 total "risk", I can get 10+ programmers worth of work for 3 months. A much better gamble than paying per token.

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embedding-shape 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> What scam are you speaking of ? The return window ?

Your calculation seems to have depended on "Buy this hardware with the explicit intention of returning it" process, which is a scam. If you buy hardware you do so with the intent of keeping it, otherwise you find renters, if you don't like scams.

So if you don't plan to return it, wouldn't the cost at minimum be the cost of the GPU??? Why count on returning it if you don't plan to do so?

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zip77 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I am seeing nobody liking what you said, but you are not wrong.

	▲	Kevin_Flynn 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thankfully, the environment we are all forced to live in, doesn't care what we think about it, and adapting to it accurately at minimal expense is the difference between surviving and thriving. What people don't like is the environment, and they just decided to stone my post to death for adapting to it, instead of doing the same. People are just being people. I'm a much easier target than that Sam guy, who locked up 40% of the planets GPU's using purchase orders, with no obligation to follow through. He's an untouchable elite. I'm much easier to mug. We are all opportunists. The entire thinking behind the post, was spawned by the article the other day, about the "video game construction kit" guy, bragging about spending $3.1 million a month on tokens in an article, with $0 revenue.