AI Startups & Companies See Gaming GPUs As An Alternative To Dwindling Chip Supply
It looks like we might see another crypto-like GPU shortage of gaming GPUs, only this time it will be caused by the growing demand for AI. The shortage of AI GPUs in China has resulted in companies setting their sight on gaming GPUs, and things can take a turn here.
We previously reported that the shortages of GPUs, such as NVIDIA's H100, are rapidly increasing. NVIDIA cannot fulfill the immense demand from its market, due to which its AI GPUs are being sold at tremendous costs, reaching almost USD $70,000. While this has caused hindrances to acquiring GPUs, some companies have found another way to tackle the shortage: getting consumer graphics cards.
While there isn't much evidence behind the shift in interest, a recent tweet from the CEO of Comma AI has revealed that the company has brought AMD gaming GPUs
AMD (unlike Qualcomm) is a joy to buy chips from. 7.38 PFLOPS of compute was delivered today, with exaflops more to come.
Nice to see them more active on the ROCm GitHub, we are working on the layer above @__tinygrad__ pic.twitter.com/5yE11TVA5F
— George Hotz
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