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		volta87 on Jan 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Analyzing the performance of Tensorflow training o... If that's the case that would be very good. One can buy lots of M1 mac minis for the price of a V100..

sdenton4 on Jan 15, 2021 [–]

Well, you can also get many RTX 3080's (~$700) for the price of a V100 (~$6000), and the RTX 3080's are faster: https://browser.geekbench.com/cuda-benchmarks

As I understand it, the V100 price is mostly artificial datacenter markup, enabled by lack of competition...

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