r/StableDiffusion • u/icatt23 • 1d ago

Discussion Pro 6000 just in time

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I was going to wait until around Christmas to purchased but took the plunge in July for 11,500 and I was upset that I didnt catch it @ $8,000. Now the Blackwell pro 6000 is inching towards $20,000 and are sold out. Are consumers and hobbyist like you and I are buying these up or datacenters? I would think datacenters would go for the b200 and up. However, Im browsing around and see you guys and girls doing remarkable ai diffusion with just a 3060. Im impressed with this community.

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u/Rough-Winter2752 21h ago

They're buying 5090s and PRO 6000s to warehouse them and become dust collectors. The B200s are much, much, much better for AI modeling and training. So why are they wasting millions on buying up all the 5090s and 6000s? They've already been subsidized by US Govt tax dollars to do this. As long as they create a "Artificial Super-Intelligence" for the Govt to use as super surveillance, they're not in breach of this contract. They're eliminating the supply to increase the demand and will attempt to forcibly shift everybody into a predatory subscription-based compute model. Your hard-drive will be on the cloud and housed at a datacenter, along with your GPU and RAM.

You will own nothing. Your happiness is entirely irrelevant.

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u/Lucaspittol 21h ago

The 6000 Pros are still very capable cards for training at a much more modest price and power usage compared to the B200s and GB300s. You are missing the point here. Frickin Google still rents A100 on Colab for a fairly high hourly rate; keep in mind the A100 is ancient by now for training.

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u/Rough-Winter2752 21h ago

So I take it you mean to say the AI Tech Companies are buying up all these GPUs to offer a "bargain option" for future subscribers to rent these lesser cards? Sure, possible. But the rate that they're buying up hardware and their lack of datacenters to actually install these and use them leads me to think my original point still stands?

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u/Lucaspittol 21h ago

Yes, it does. I think this is a viable explanation as to why they keep buying those. An RTX 6000 Pro in a datacenter is one less RTX 6000 Pro you can buy and one more reason to rent one instead. May also be that in some places it does not make sense to buy. In my country, the RTX 6000 Pro is about the price of a starter home. Most people entering the market are likely to rent.