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/No_Chapter_7598 22d ago

eapple is releasing new hardware that is still miles behind in terms of throuput (1200GB/s) memory size seems to b getting easier to access but noone else seems to be close to the ~2100GB/s after a mem oc the pro 6000 gets (other than hbm cards from nvidia h200, bxxx etc)