Conversely, one of my best friends is in charge of compute resources for his academic department at large nearby university. He buys multiple units of GPUs that are tens of thousands of dollars each cost for protein and molecular chemical reaction modeling done by his department. His last PO, he happened to mention to me, was for close to $200K for a new small cluster. But he runs a 3070 Founders Edition on his own PC and is perfectly happy with medium/high settings.