AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified
What's happening
AMD has listed its 192 GB Gorgon Halo server offering with regular pricing starting at $6,799. The Gorgon Halo pairs with AMD's new 256-core EPYC platform that supports 16-channel DDR5-12800, delivering up to 91% of the memory bandwidth of an RTX 5090, and highlights large RDIMM kits such as 2 TB DDR5-12800 discussed in community threads. Community posts also note high memory and VRAM overclocking headroom (examples: 1248 GB/s on a 5070ti with +5500 memory overclocks and an unlocked mlock for GDDR7), framing memory capacity and bandwidth as central to local inference performance.
Why it's trending
Because vendors are shipping extremely high-capacity DDR5 systems and the community is obsessing over memory bandwidth and overclocking, so price and performance of massive-memory AMD servers are trending now.
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If you think GPUs are the only expensive part of inference, AMD's $6,799 192 GB Gorgon Halo says otherwise.
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- 1248 GB/s on 5060ti (+40%) with +5500 memory overclocks
edit: sorry should be 5070ti There now is unlock for higher memory overclocks called mlock. And apparently the GDDR7 has a lot of headroom: Of course this can help massively for local inference, especially token generation.
r/LocalLLaMASep 30 - AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified
Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap
The RegisterSep 29 - AMD's new 256 core EPYC has 16-channel DDR5-12800, 91% memory bandwidth of an RTX 5090
Here are some inspirational quotes you can put into the comments: God is dead and we killed him I am become death All this for 1.5 tok/s? Sir this is LocalLLaMA not RichPeopleofLocalLLaMA Sweet! A 2TB DDR5-12800 RDIMM kit is going to cost only 2 kidneys and a small micronation's GDP
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