Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation

Nvidia's long-teased GH200 CPU-GPU Superchips are finally going on sale, and the 1,000-Watt chip – built to run in servers and handle hefty AI training and inference tasks – is even available in a workstation from German startup gptshop.ai. Bernhard Guentner, the brains behind the upstart, built the GH200 into a workstation …

[Blackjack]

So... what is the most demanding computer game nowadays? And can this computer run it?

[Zibob]

Cities skylines 2 I think?

Seems that its just horrifically badly optimised though, so that might change.

[Andy Non]

But can you run Doom on it?

[Anonymous Coward]

And add an NE2000 to play with friends?

[Lee D]

In a few years, you'll be able to buy an ordinary desktop card that outperforms this.

You'd have to be a nutter to drop €50k on this for any non-business reason.

[Roj Blake]

They won't need many nutters to make a tidy profit though.

And luckily for them, there are a lot of nutters out there.

[Dave 126]

So, am I right in thinking that the only advantage to stuffing all this into a workstation case compared to keeping it in a rack cabinet is that it takes up less physical space in your office?

If so, then it would appear that it is of more interest to people with small offices, perhaps constrained by high property prices in, say, a city centre.

Or am I missing something?

[keithpeter]

The noise? I gather that server fans go fast all the time and make a lot of noise whereas my reading of the article suggests that in the workstation design here the fans slow down or speed up as needed (I could have misunderstood).

This thing is definitely in the 'hand made mechanical wristwatch with complications and a gold case' category though I suspect as Lee D posted up the thread.

[Autonomous Comrade]

Don't dare buy your AI PC with firefox

On their order form they clearly state "This form does not work properly with Firefox, please use any other browser." - I thought they'd try a little harder when they are asking for €50k

[Phiphi in SoCal]

Science fair project.

...when you've built a bunch of PCs, every project looks like a nail.

[Enormous Crowe Turd]

Why?

At the risk of sounding negative, what's the point?