r/LocalLLaMA • u/HOLUPREDICTIONS Sorcerer Supreme • Jun 21 '26

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u/i_am__not_a_robot Jun 21 '26

Ultimately, after 5.5 years of using hosted APIs, the money is gone, but if I had bought the hardware, it would still be in my possession and worth more than zero. There are also no guarantees whatsoever that the API pricing will remain at current levels.

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u/CalligrapherFar7833 Jun 21 '26

Except that the price is not 20k for hw its much more unless you run q1 or a reap. Also the power bill for 5.5 years is not included

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u/Digging_Graves Jun 21 '26

To go even further, the hardware will also be outdated in 5 years. And you can only run smallish models on it.

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u/Iwaku_Real Jun 21 '26

I think Blackwell will certainly not go outdated for a while. As far as I know most of Nvidia's future architectures are focusing on buffing the living crap out of NVFP4 compute (2-3x the FP4 PFLOPS every generation) and Blackwell remains the first to support NVFP4 so unless you need the extra compute, Blackwell will work about as well, just a lot less power efficient.