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Former cryptomining GPUs are now being repurposed to make GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RX 580 16GB cards - VideoCardz.com (videocardz.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's for AI acceleration. In AI training (and with LLMs, inference), the VRAM is basically hard limit of the complexity of the AI model you can run on the GPU. 20GB is enough to train some small LLMs, 10GB is not.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Brother, nobody is running AI acceleration on a 580.

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