[SkiFire13]

Quite the opposite, GPUs running at a stable rate degrade less than GPU that continuously hit highs and lows (like it would happen on a gaming rig).

[yobbo]

Normal use means loading data into the GPU for each batch. The load is not even, though training might be worse than "production".

[blensor]

After digging around a bit I found an unverified claim from 2024 that GPUs in datacenters have a lifespan of 1-3 years

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-g...

Others say that moderate load means a lifespan of ~5 years

Not sure what that means but I would assume that a datacenter will start replacing a node once the error rate hits a certain threshold without really investigating why it failed, so the practical lifespan may be shorter than 5 years even if it would technically still be usable enough