Wafer is making themselves synonymous with slop in the inference space. Exaggerated unfair comparisons in all their results, twitter hype posts with alarm emojis etc.
> $2.50/GPU-hr for the MI355X, $6.00 for the B300, and $4.25 for the B200.
This is not an accurate price comparison for real terms.
This is a company that launched a token subscription (WaferPass), before weeks later, rugpulling the plan for being unsustainable while simultaneously claiming they achieved incredible inference efficiency gains worthy of paying them mind.
I went the gpus.io website & it’s $2.95/hr right now, this is like comparing MSRP to actual market price. B300s are in demand & hence cost more, but these lazy editors at wafer.ai can't be bothered to do TCO on actual ownership nor share code to replicate their setups. Instead just relying on current market prices to win one row, which isnt even about per/$ on actual MSRPs.
Most discourse around GPU prices is nonsense right now. Some people using Spot prices for providers who won't have Spot capacity, some people using hourly rates for instances that are never in stock, some people ignoring commitment discounts.
Not to mention no one serious is serving this on 8xB200 instead of multiple nodes: the vast majority of Moonshot's inference work is focused on PD-disaggregation
> Not to mention no one serious is serving this on 8xB200 instead of multiple nodes: the vast majority of Moonshot's inference work is focused on PD-disaggregation
The GPU price discourse is absurd, but many are serving models on single node setups when the model fits
I meant serious players often do serve on a single node. They can beat API pricing as well.
Multi-node can add gain, but also adds a lot of deployment complexity so its just not always possible or optimal.
I'm saying everything looks like it does, with the prompt you gave Sol. Go ahead and point the same prompt to anything you don't think has serious flaws and you'll see it would tear it apart.
To begin with, as I pointed out separately, the price comparison that makes the headline is absurd. No one is easily getting the MI355X's at $2.5/hr. And then the eval is unreplicable and poorly defined.
> $2.50/GPU-hr for the MI355X, $6.00 for the B300, and $4.25 for the B200.
This is not an accurate price comparison for real terms.