Articles Tagged "GPU"

Cloud GPU Rental Pricing Compared - April 2026

Cloud GPU Rental Pricing Compared - April 2026

Raw GPU rental rates across 20+ providers normalized to per-GPU-hour - H100, H200, A100, L40S, RTX 4090, on-demand vs spot vs reserved, with hidden costs and value-tier recommendations.

A $900 RTX 3090 Now Beats an M5 Max at LLM Inference

A $900 RTX 3090 Now Beats an M5 Max at LLM Inference

Two researchers fused all 24 layers of Qwen 3.5-0.8B into a single CUDA kernel launch, making a five-year-old RTX 3090 deliver 1.8x the throughput of an M5 Max at equal or better efficiency. The gap was software, not silicon.

A Shoe Company Ditched Shoes for GPUs and Surged 373%

A Shoe Company Ditched Shoes for GPUs and Surged 373%

Allbirds sold its entire footwear business for $39 million - roughly 1% of its $4 billion peak valuation - and is rebranding as NewBird AI to buy GPUs and rent compute to AI developers. The stock quadrupled in a day.