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I don't get the price complaints. This is targeted for deep learning and looks to be similar in performance to a card that currently costs 3x the amount. This is a huge price cut for the compute performance and should make cloud GPU time cheaper and/or more efficient.

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I'd hazard to guess that most people complaining about price are misguided gamers who think Nvidia is now charging them 5x more for a card.

research != deep learning

> should make cloud GPU time cheaper and/or more efficient.

No way. These will be not put in data centers of cloud providers. I'm not even sure many regular data centers will have anything like this -- especially if NVIDIA keeps pushing and blackmailing server vendors to stop selling servers packed with GeForce cards if they don't want to loose big [1,2].

[1] https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia-geforce-server [2] https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20171027PD200.html

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