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Show HN: I made a calculator to show cost savings of serverless GPUs vs. AWS

25 pointsby votickabout 3 years ago

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archerxabout 3 years ago
Or you can just buy a GPU instead of renting one out. I have a project where users generate designs for clothing and the mock ups get rendered in 3D on various different models, about 20 variations per design. Instead of paying a monthly bill to some GPU provider forever I instead bought a Nvidia Jetson Nano and set it up as a render server. It constantly looks at it&#x27;s render queue and renders as needed. It cost me $150 to put it together and sometimes I forget it exists because it runs so well.<p>Sometimes it&#x27;s cheaper and more practical to just buy the hardware.<p>I had a similar issue with a company I worked for before, we had an account on Azure and the machine was expensive but also slow and after 4 months we decided to buy a used server for $1000 and closed the Azure account and never looked back.
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naikrovekabout 3 years ago
buying GPUs will always be cheaper than renting, unless something changes dramatically. even with GPU prices being what they are today.<p>depending on usage, you could start saving money over rented GPU time in a single-digit number of weeks.