More hefty GPU price hikes are rumored — and your only chance of a high-end Nvidia graphics card at MSRP is at QuakeCon
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Rumored GPU price hikes and event-only MSRP access mean high-end compute is drifting further from consumer reach and into institutional hands. For teams relying on prosumer GPUs for training or inference, lock in hardware now or start modeling a world where cloud or shared clusters are your only viable path.
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