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This card is expected to be around $6,000. Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider it that unreasonable. A lot of ML scientists are (were?) earning around 7-figures. Companies paying these salaries can afford a a $6,000 GPU. Of course, it'd be nice if there was a little price discrimination for the rest of us. Still, $6,000 doesn't seem too bad for cutting edge tech.

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My guess is more like $9,000 given Nvidia is in grab-all-the-moneys-you-can mode now after crypto died.

Sorry here in EU we are making a lot less past 2 years we have big increase in salary but still avg for EU is probably about ~60-80k USD if you have 4/5+ years of exp and if you are very good you can get 100-120k USD+ (not counting Meta/Google and few other but only in few countries) and ofc it is pre-tax as taxation is a lot higher than US so in some countries you'll get about 40-60% total salary (counting VAT on basic products and other taxation).

Not even counting Eastern Europe and Asia where you get fraction of that.

Imagine spending 10%+ of your yearly income after taxation on this card...

Imagine you have to spend 15% of your yearly salary every 2 years cause nvidia tax (ofc in western developer countries and more like 50% excluding cost of living in less fortunate areas)

If it makes you 11% more productive then its worth it

This is business equipment, so I don't see how salary is relevant.

The post that kicked off this chain was comparing the cost of the devices to the salaries of the people who'd be using them, to defend the high cost.

Yes, because a business spending 7 figures on a single contributor can definitely afford spending $6,000 on a card.

Yah, I agree.

Then again, I've been places that are stingy about printing, which didn't make much sense to me, so I guess they have some... other way of looking at this stuff.

Cause you won't be able to use working/business equipment in your free time on your own projects?

Not everyone is living the dream in the US of A, y'know? For those privileged enough, this might be reasonable. For the rest of the world (bar some exceptions), not so much.

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