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		kookamamie on May 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloud GPU Resources and Pricing NVIDIA's EULA specifically forbids using consumer GPUs for data-center -like computation purposes. Even if that wasn't an issue, there are a number of issues with both providing power to multiple consumer GPUs and just fitting them into a case/chassis, as they vary in their physical sizes - often being 1.5-2x in width compared to the similar level enterprise GPU.

andrewstuart on May 22, 2023 | [–]

>> NVIDIA's EULA specifically forbids using consumer GPUs for data-center -like computation purposes

I cannot see that in the wording here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/

dikei on May 22, 2023 | | [–]

> No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.

It's this clause.

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