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They missed an opportunity by not adding $8
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They will add $27,008 in time.
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And people still don't believe Apple is giving a good deal on Macs.
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Prompt processing on Macs is VERY slow...
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which engine? cause there are dozens already, and some are quite fast.
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Which one is the fastest and how fast is it? Even the "fast" ones doesn't seem to even reach close to consumer NVIDIA GPUs released years ago when it comes to prompt processing.
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large model and slow, or speed and a teeny model, make your choice
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none of them are Nvidia GPU FAST
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> Prompt processing on Macs is VERY slow...

That sounds like a contradiction.

/J

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I had to do a double take myself, scrolled down and arrived at a similar number.

Wish I built this a few years ago!

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Yeah, I bought a Thelio Major three years ago. I'm kicking myself for not going dual-4090s for a mere $10K back then.
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Hopefully it will come down to that price point or cheaper again in the next 3-4 years?
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Hopefully... If it doesn't, mere mortals like us consumers are going to be priced out of computers altogether. It'll be the end of the personal computing era and a return to big iron mainframes.
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Me three
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I wonder what the target audience for this price range is? At that price point I would rather go for a single H100.
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I would rather take this option than a single H100:

> 96 GB Dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 w/ 1000W PSU (non-refundable) +$19,169

Though I don't think there's anything stopping you from trying to stuff an H100 into this machine if you want to BYO.

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For that price you get the H100. The machine is overpriced, and I'd personally rather go for a second-hand workstation with server-grade components.
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Hopper is ~4 years old at this point though, compared to Blackwell which is ~2 years old, the difference isn't nil.

Depending on your use case, you might prefer native FP4 and FP6 low-precision support and 5th-generation Tensor Cores rather than what Hopper offers.

I think for training Hopper makes sense as it's generally a bit cheaper and the difference isn't that big, but for inference the difference widens a bunch makes a lot more sense to go with Blackwell.

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So a new car, or an AI rig.

That's a bitter pill to swallow. Most of this is the cost of the Nvidia card, and the RAM.

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  Graphics:
    (...)
    +$18,399 192 GB Dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 w/ 1000W + 750W PSUs (non-refundable) +$37,239
  Memory:
    (...)
    192 GB DDR5 3600 MHz (4x48) +$1,874 
yup, 87.8% of $42,412 is just two GPUs and a PSU. Even RAM is less than 5%.
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Really just the GPUs. PSUs aren’t that expensive maybe 100-200 for a good 750W-1000W one
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Kind of feels like if you spend $40K on your GPU setup, you don't want to cheap out on the PSU.

Still, you're right, I have a 1200W PSU for a single RTX Pro 6000, cost ~500 something, so still the PSU shouldn't be that large part of the total budget.

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$42k and a toy CPU at that. Threadripper or EPIC if it must be AMD camp, although I'd rather it weren't (_always_ some random issues on linux). TBH, if I were buying workstation at such prices, I'd probably first take a look at what HP has (since their cooling and immunity to dust is unprecedented), and then probably BOXX and Puget. For DIY there's always supermicro at such levels.
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That's what I don't understand, they're shipping RTX 6000s that are PCI lane-starved. Buying a Maserati and driving it around in 3rd gear.
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I've noticed that some companies have flat out dropped the high memory configurations from their lineup that were offered just months ago at inflated prices. OnePlayerX had a 128GB Strix Halo tablet, RedMagic had a 24GB Android phone - both have been removed from their sites. It's a similar situation for the new Thinkpad lineup.
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The honor 400 used to be sold for 300 dollars with 12 gb of ram. Now the replacement the honor 600 comes with 8 GB at twice the price.
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SSD too. The priced have tripled...

It would be great if China had more lithography machine....

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All memory. SSDs are expensive, microSD is expensive, even spinning rust has inflated.
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hoist by our own strategic export controls, rip
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Taiwan would disagree
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