LowEndTalk is abuzz this morning about the return of GPU servers to Hetzner.

They ain’t cheap, but what did you expect…$7/month?

• Dedicated GPU-Server GEX44
• Intel® Core™ i5-13500 14 Core “Raptor Lake-S”
• 64 GB DDR4 RAM
• 2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition (Gen 3, Software RAID 1)
• Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
• 1 Gbit/s bandwidth
• Price (monthly): € 184.00
• Setup (once): € 79.00

See YABS below.

Some comments around the web think this is a bit “meh”.  And there’s a further limitation, called out @nanankcornering:

The RTX4000 is limited to 70w of power only. 2.5x less than their GTX1080 server lineup (max power of 180w)

So while this is cheap, if you’re going to be running intense workloads, you may need to step up.

Here’s a YABS from @nanankcornering, who shared the disclaimer that there was other work being done on the node:

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Tue Feb 20 16:19:28 CET 2024

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 29 minutes
Processor  : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13500
CPU cores  : 20 @ 2500.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 62.6 GiB
Swap       : 32.0 GiB
Disk       : 1.7 TiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Kernel     : 5.15.0-89-generic
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : Hetzner Online GmbH
ASN        : AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
Host       : Hetzner
Location   : Nuremberg, Bavaria (BY)
Country    : Germany

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md2):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 829.78 MB/s (207.4k) | 919.00 MB/s  (14.3k)
Write      | 831.97 MB/s (207.9k) | 923.83 MB/s  (14.4k)
Total      | 1.66 GB/s   (415.4k) | 1.84 GB/s    (28.7k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.01 GB/s     (1.9k) | 1.10 GB/s     (1.0k)
Write      | 1.06 GB/s     (2.0k) | 1.18 GB/s     (1.1k)
Total      | 2.07 GB/s     (4.0k) | 2.29 GB/s     (2.2k)

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 2522                          
Multi Core      | 11596                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4996170

YABS completed in 5 min 5 sec

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