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by electriclove 23 days ago
Are GPUs from 3 years ago being deprecated today?
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3eb7988a1663 22 days ago
I thought I saw a report from someone at Google saying that they were still running 7+ year old hardware because of demand. Even if it is not state of the art, if it generates more than the electricity costs, keep it running until it dies.
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WarmWash 22 days ago
Efficiency gains have been so intense that old hardware is still viable for serving brand new mid size models.
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throwaway85825 22 days ago
Likely legacy products are running on the old chips because the newer generations are capacity constrained.
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dopa42365 22 days ago
Hetzner is still running and selling Haswell Xeons and GTX-1080s that are 10+ years old.

Definitely not silicon waste the second something faster arrives. There's still a world beyond cutting edge LLM slop after all.

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