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Agora: Bridging the GPU Cloud Resource-Price Disconnect
Ian McDougall, Noah Scott, Joon Huh, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05111 ht…

Agora: Bridging the GPU Cloud Resource-Price Disconnect
The historic trend of Moore's Law, which predicted exponential growth in computational performance per dollar, has diverged for modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). While Floating Point Operations per Second (FLOPs) capabilities have continued to scale economically, memory bandwidth has not, creating a significant price-performance disconnect. This paper argues that the prevailing time-based pricing models for cloud GPUs are economically inefficient for bandwidth-bound workloads. These mode…