[asciimike]

The short answer here is that NVIDIA doesn't like Cloud Service Partners using RTX cards, as they are "professional" cards (they are also significantly cheaper than the corresponding data center cards). IIRC, A40, L40, and L40S have ray tracing, and might be more available on CSPs. Otherwise, the GPU marketplaces that aren't "true" CSPs will likely have RTX cards.

Paperspace (now DO), Vultr, Coreweave, Crusoe, should all have something with ray tracing.

[CSMastermind]

Incredibly helpful, thank you!

We did try on the T4 and A10G but the raytracing failed even though those cards claim to support it.

We ended up on Paperspace for the time being but they depreciated their support for Windows so I've been looking for alternatives. Will check out the provides you mentioned. Thanks again.

[asciimike]

Oof, the short answer is Windows + virtualization + GPUs is hard for anyone to support. Two main difficult problems:

- Licensing Windows is really, really annoying (and expensive), and BYOL is something people seem oddly reticent to do - Installing (and updating) NVIDIA GPU drivers on Windows is something that requires GUI access (at least the first time)

Paperspace was going to be my answer, but I guess DO didn't like those problems either! NVIDIA has an RTX Cloud, though I admit I'm struggling to find mention of it on their website, maybe something like: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/free-trial-virtual-...