Re:Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads
by SoftTalker on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:48PM
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A few years ago we got rid of a bunch of K80s at work, they were not only obsolete but had gotten glitchy as hell. I suspect this is from the many heat/cool cycles they went through. When they were running flat out the exhaust air felt like a hair dryer.
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Re:Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads
by Octoth0rpe on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:57PM
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Do you have any #s on how old they were at decomm time? There's some suspicion that part of the AI bubble is companies playing games with depreciation, eg assuming that H100/H200s will survive for 5 years.
Re:Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads
by SoftTalker on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:01PM
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They were probably about 8 years old. They were well past reasonable EOL, but they were used for teaching, so performance was not a primary concern, as long as they worked. They had reached the point of not working often enough that we finally scrapped them.