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Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models (www.techradar.com)
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[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Remote computing is very expensive. It's just the gated (owned by companies) LLMs that are cheap for the final consumer. Training a 2b LLM on remote compute will cost thousands of dollars if you try to.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

2B is nothing, even 7B is tiny. Commercial API-based LLMs are like 130-200 billion parameters.

I mean yeah, training a 7B LLM from scratch on consumer-grade hardware could take weeks or months, and run up an enormous electric bill. With a decent GPU and enough VRAM you could probably shorten that to days or weeks, and you might want to power it on solar panels.

But I haven't calculated what it would take to do on rented compute.