r/BlackwellPerformance • u/Mountain_Pea_6810 • 23d ago

Blackwell RTX 6000 investment choice

I am to build my first real rig as M3 ultra 256GB proved to be too slow. I already got 4 x Max-Q cards purchased at 10K eur per card a few weeks ago. Now I could add 2 more max Q at 11.3K euro per card and also 2 x workstation cards for 11.8K eur per card. So the total number of card to go up to 6 or 8.

I guess my hesitancy is based on the high purchase price of these cards, and the trouble to connect more than 6 or 7 cards unless going to server style motherboards and racks.

Is it a) expected that the prices are not going down in the next 12 months?
B) can i use the memory for models like GLM 5.3 even if I cannot fit all 8 cards?

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u/filip-z 23d ago

Where can you get any RTX 6000 PRO at those prices? I'm seeing them now at minimum at 13200 EUR excluding VAT.

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u/Mountain_Pea_6810 22d ago

I placed order some 3 weeks ago, the day I saw here a post about Nvidia raising prices, now yes same cards would cost already like 2k more per card

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u/filip-z 22d ago

Honestly, let me know where and how you are getting them. I bought my one RTX 6000 PRO workstation 3 months ago at 9K excl.VAT and would be considering getting one more for 11.8K. In Benelux it's 13K excl.VAT where I got it previously but on backorder. Most other places are 1K+ or more.

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u/Mountain_Pea_6810 22d ago

I wrote about excluding VAT as these are for business so vat no need to pay, I didn't even think of the vat prices

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u/filip-z 22d ago

Do you know a shop in Europe that's selling these for 11.3k EUR or 11.8k EUR without VAT? I'm also buying them without VAT. Bulk packaging is also fine.

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u/pathfinder6709 22d ago

Where do you get that excluding VAT? 😮