Yep. There are 10 year old GPU accelerators that are basically vaporware at this point. But the 5-6 year old ones are still useful for local LLMs. They do require some unusual adapters, but those are out there for sale, too. ~$400 gets you 24GB of VRAM at about 1/2 the cost of a new consumer GPU.
While you can tweak your "book value" depreciation schedule, all it does is inflate assets. When you turn over GPUs, you'll take any difference as a loss or a gain once final value is known.
And I wouldn't be surprised to find these previous gen AI machines finding their way into new, 2nd tier cloud operations or medium sized businesses in a few years.
Yep. There are 10 year old GPU accelerators that are basically vaporware at this point. But the 5-6 year old ones are still useful for local LLMs. They do require some unusual adapters, but those are out there for sale, too. ~$400 gets you 24GB of VRAM at about 1/2 the cost of a new consumer GPU.
While you can tweak your "book value" depreciation schedule, all it does is inflate assets. When you turn over GPUs, you'll take any difference as a loss or a gain once final value is known.
And I wouldn't be surprised to find these previous gen AI machines finding their way into new, 2nd tier cloud operations or medium sized businesses in a few years.