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by chrisseaton 2230 days ago
Can you actually buy GPUs now? An advantage of Amazon in the past was that they were actually available there, where they weren’t available to buy in practice.
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Not sure what you mean. You can buy GPUs anywhere.

You can even buy Tesla V100s that power AWS accelerated instances.

> Not sure what you mean.

Over the last decade there was often a major problem in GPU supply. Huge users like Amazon were presumably buying in bulk direct from manufacturers as custom runs so weren’t trying to buy them on the open market like everyone else.

Even other clouds had major problems getting them at some points.

There were lots of GPUs being bought up for crypto mining reasons, but that doesn't seem like it has been as big of a deal in the consumer market recently (at least locally.)

If anything, it generated a lot of cheap secondhand cards for sale in some places.

There was never a real issue getting 4 or 5 commodity-grade GPUs. At worst, you had to pay a 20-30% premium.
The crypto scams seem to have died off, so there are probably plenty of used ones on the market.

The demand right now has also fallen dramatically even from regular customers.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/coronavirus-motherboard-gr...

oh, yeah. Thanks for reminding me. Disclaimer: My needs are not for crypto currency :)