The MI50 Build: 64GB VRAM for the Price of a Single GPU
The Secret in the Basement While everyone else is fighting over the latest consumer cards with 16GB of VRAM and software-locked features, there’s a graveyard of enterprise-grade power sitting in data centres. The AMD Radeon Instinct MI50. It’s a gfx906 beast. It’s old enough to be “cheap” on the secondary market, but powerful enough to run models that would make a 3090 look like a calculator — at least for token crunching, where memory bandwidth is king. On raw compute and modern tricks, the 3090 still wins. This build isn’t fast; it’s capable. ...