I dunno. From my more isolated perspective on GitHub and small LLM testing circles, I see a lot of 3090s, 4090s, sometimes arrays of 3060s/3090s or old P40s or MI50s, which people got basically for the purpose of experimentation and development because they can’t drop (or at least justify) $5K.

They would 100% drop that money on a 7900 48GB instead (as the sheer capacity is worth it over the speed hit and finickiness), and then do a whole bunch of bugfixing/testing on them. I know I would. Hence the Framework Strix Halo thing is sold out even though it’s… rather compute-lite compared to a 3090+ GPU.

It seems like a tiny market, but a lot of the frameworks/features/models being developed by humble open source devs filter up to the enterprise space.