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replyProbably 160 GB for $4,000.
Is PCI-E too much to ask?
replyThat's a pretty good deal these days.
replyBuy Strix Halo or Apple Silicon platforms and you get essentially that.
replyBuy 4?
replyWhich mainboards are cheap and have 4 pcie16x (electrical) slots, that don't need weird risers to fit 4 GPUs
replyConsumer CPUs don't have enough PCIE lanes to do that. Even if they had physical x16 slots, at most two of them would be x16.
replyWhat's cheap to you? You can find Epyc 7002/7003 boards on ebay in the $400 range and those will do it. That's probably the best deal for 4x PCIE 4.0 x16 and DDR4. Probably $500 range with a CPU. That's in the ballpark of a mid to high end consumer setup these days.
If your actual gripe is risers, sounds like a "you" problem, not a technical problem.
replyBecause I don't want to spend $4k.
replyI want to spend $1500 for a card that can run a proper large model, even if it only can do 25 tk/s.
Intel is squandering a golden opportunity to knee-cap AMD and Nvdia, under the totally delusional pretense that intel enterprise cards still have a fighting chance.
I saw a good quote recently, "you're not going to get 128 gigs of vram loose in a plastic bag for that much".
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