Comment by Aurornis

> You could have spent all of 5 seconds of searching rather than just assuming[1].

I guarantee this will not ship to you any time soon.

The current lead time on these GPUs in measured in years. If you didn't place an order for this a long time ago, it's not coming this year.

Being able to add it to an online configurator does not mean anything right now.

> 12 months of Claude burning $70k a month is $840k

Your math is completely useless with these arbitrary numbers pulled out of the air.

If you want to begin calculating payback period you'd need to look at token costs, cost per task, utilization rates, and so on.

> The operating cost is so much lower it's paid for itself plus an additional $40k in the first year.

You went from paying back in a couple months to paying back in a year but you still haven't even talked about tokens or concurrency.

You're also neglecting the fact that hosted tokens are going down in price at a rapid rate. If someone was paying $70K per month in tokens for Opus this month, that same level of compute is going to be much cheaper 12 months from now.

> Why does this have you so nasty and defensive?

Not nasty or defensive, just tired of these armchair claims that it's easy to go out and buy an 8 X MI355X box from people who obviously have no idea what the hardware lead time is like right now, or who haven't considered the actual math on token costs and payback times. You're still making a lot of claims without a single discussion of cost per task or token.