[FridgeSeal]

Azure ML/GPU instanced are also really expensive.

I did the maths recently and figured out I could put together a machine with a couple of 2080 Ti’s and have it pay for itself in a couple of months.

I’m very seriously considering doing it, especially as I’m the only data scientist, if I had a team I’d be more in favour of going to the effort of setting up cloud-based training jobs etc

[CoolGuySteve]

That's what my partners and I did. But we bought refurbished 1080 cards for about $300 each and Ryzen 9 hardware.

We're waiting for the 3000 series to come out which should be a large performance/dollar improvement over the current gen cards due to the smaller transistor size.