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I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200
May 31, 2026
A Tesla V100 SXM2 (2017, 16GB HBM2, 900 GB/s bandwidth) paired with an RTX 4080 via a £50 third-party SXM2-to-PCIe adapter gives 32GB total VRAM for roughly £200, running a 27B parameter model at 32 tokens/sec under llama.cpp. The V100's 4096-bit memory bus outpaces the RTX 4080's 736 GB/s and every current Apple Silicon Mac. Comparable VRAM from a single RTX 5090 costs over £2,000.