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Re:Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads by SoftTalker on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:48PM (#48897835)
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.
Re:Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads by Octoth0rpe on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:57PM (#48897937)
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 (#48897983)
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.
Re:Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads by eso_logic on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:17PM (#48898206)
This is a great datapoint. Someone else brought up that I should be memory checking the GPUs to understand if things are breaking down.