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by bick_nyers 1181 days ago
I don't think you understand though, they don't WANT you. They WANT the version of you who makes $150k+ a year and will splurge $5k on a Quadro.

If they had trouble selling stock we would see this niche market get catered to.

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That IS me. $5K is not enough to run an LLM at home (beyond the non-functional reduced quantization smaller models).
Ahh yes, looks like I was too generous with my numbers, the new Quadro with 48GB VRAM is $7k, so you probably would need $14k and a Threadripper/Xeon/EPYC workstation because you won't have enough PCIE lanes/RAM/Memory Bandwidth otherwise.

So maybe more accurate is $200k+ a year and $20-30k on a workstation.

I grew up on $20k a year, the numbers in tech. are baffling!