Small Models Have Arrived

Re:Small Models Have Arrived by regularfry on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:29PM (#49470789)

There's a non-small contingent who lucked into the periodic games machine upgrade at the right time to snag a {3,4,5}090 rig just before everything exploded. It's a small contingent now but it was less so then. And now those people can add a second card for roughly what that whole system would have cost new originally.

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Re:Small Models Have Arrived by hparadiz on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:43PM (#49470977)

The current supply chain problems will eventually pass.

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Re:Small Models Have Arrived by TeMPOraL on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:53AM (#49475213)

So will the stock of 3090s, as well as their ability to run contemporary local models. And there will be no supply of newer equivalents of those GPUs, because NVIDIA has since wisened up, and is using the very capabilities you need for local LLMs as market segment differentiator.

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