A two-person AI team prices out four GPUs for a fine-tuning box in September.
The number works.
Then October 1 arrives.
AMD raised the GDDR6 memory prices it charges its board partners, effective that day.
Memory is the biggest single cost inside a graphics card, so the hike lands in the retail price.
In China the RX 9070 already moved up by roughly $104 and the RX 9060 XT 8 GB by $45.
The RTX 5090 has been tracked at 136% above MSRP globally since early September.
That follows a 10% Radeon kit increase in July and another 10% in September tied to wafer costs.
A US system integrator now says GPU prices will soar and inventory will be hard to secure.
For a small team this is the part that kills projects.
You save for a rack, the quote moves, and the model waits.
So the team rents instead of buying.
RTX 3090s at $0.15/hr with auto-scaling, and storage at $2.49/TB per month.
Buy Now Pay Later, zero upfront, pay after one month, so the first experiment runs before the first invoice.
What did your last GPU quote come in at, and did you buy or rent?
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