Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs are so expensive that Intel's Arc Pro B70 is now a genuine bargain for AI — 128GB 4-card configuration costs less than $3800
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When a 4× Arc Pro B70 stack with 128GB comes in under $3,800 while a single RTX 5090 hovers around $4,000, the constraint for local AI shifts from raw performance to price/performance and availability. For teams doing on-prem or edge inference, it’s time to benchmark non-Nvidia options instead of assuming CUDA is the only viable path.
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