Except you can absolutely obtain 4090s today, while enterprise hardware is (was? haven't looked at the data) recently, which is the exact opposite scenario you mentioned.
I'm actually really surprised that you can still buy 4090s for under $2,000 (cheapest available I saw was $1,800 new and I only took 30 seconds to look), but you can usually sell certain models for quite a bit more. For example, my used 4090 FE is currently worth more than I paid for it.
I've played with AI, and while admittedly I've not done anything super serious, I can tell you that both the 3090 and 4090 are more than capable of performing. Tie them with a power efficient AMD CPU and you have something that can be competitive with enterprise (somewhat).
I've seen the pricing of "cloud" offerings and I've toyed with the idea of creating an "AI Cloud" because I have access to really fast internet and super cheap electricity, but I haven't executed because I'm most certainly not a salesperson. I do, however, know enough about marketing that one should not target price, so there is that...
I'm actually really surprised that you can still buy 4090s for under $2,000 (cheapest available I saw was $1,800 new and I only took 30 seconds to look), but you can usually sell certain models for quite a bit more. For example, my used 4090 FE is currently worth more than I paid for it.
I've played with AI, and while admittedly I've not done anything super serious, I can tell you that both the 3090 and 4090 are more than capable of performing. Tie them with a power efficient AMD CPU and you have something that can be competitive with enterprise (somewhat).
I've seen the pricing of "cloud" offerings and I've toyed with the idea of creating an "AI Cloud" because I have access to really fast internet and super cheap electricity, but I haven't executed because I'm most certainly not a salesperson. I do, however, know enough about marketing that one should not target price, so there is that...