Where can I rent GPU's (5090 / RTX Pro 6000) by the hour on a Windows server?

UberTiger

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I'd like to find somewhere I can rent a 5090 ideally, or maybe an H100 or the new RTX Pro 6000 by the hour to do some video AI upscaling using Topaz Labs Video and their Starlight local model.

I've found lots of places that allow you to spin up Linux boxes. But I'm having a tough time with Windows, and I need one that I can RDP into to install and configure the GUI on Topaz.

I was hoping to get it working on Paperspace, but they stopped doing Windows boxes last year.

I've been trying to get a machine spun up on Azure, but they don't have 5090's, just H100 machines, and getting quota approval for the machine is proving difficult. My first two support tickets were immediately closed, it's also a lot pricier than renting a 5090.

Can anyone recommend some other way to do it?

I have one long video I'd like to crunch, but it's for a personal project, so I can't really justify dropping £4k on a new build with a 5090. So would like to see if I can get this working somehow.
 
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UberTiger said:
I'd like to find somewhere I can rent a 5090 ideally, or maybe an H100 or the new RTX Pro 6000 by the hour to do some video AI upscaling using Topaz Labs Video and their Starlight local model.

I've found lots of places that allow you to spin up Linux boxes. But I'm having a tough time with Windows, and I need one that I can RDP into to install and configure the GUI on Topaz.

I was hoping to get it working on Paperspace, but they stopped doing Windows boxes last year.

I've been trying to get a machine spun up on Azure, but they don't have 5090's, just H100 machines, and getting quota approval for the machine is proving difficult. My first two support tickets were immediately closed, it's also a lot pricier than renting a 5090.

Can anyone recommend some other way to do it?

I have one long video I'd like to crunch, but it's for a personal project, so I can't really justify dropping £4k on a new build with a 5090. So would like to see if I can get this working somehow.
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Do you not have any GPU? In the time you've spent messing with trying to find a faster machine could you not have just left a lesser machine chugging away at it...
 
From the research I've done the last few days, I've found out that the Starlight Mini model is still insanely compute intensive, and really isn't that usable for long vids just yet.

@SuperElectric was kind enough to test a 3 minute video for me on his 5090 and the 4x upscale said it would take 12 hours to complete.

On my 3070 it's pretty atrocious and renders my PC nearly unusable while working away, hence looking into cloud options.

On the Topaz forums, most people seem to only be doing 2x upscaling, and it's still taking a very long time, but the results are very good. Even Topaz's own cloud offering currently limits to 5 minute clips, which I didn't realise until this morning.

Going by 12 hours per 3 minutes, it would take a 5090 18 days to process the long video I have in mind, so still probably cost prohibitive.

I'm starting to think it might need something like the RTX Pro 6000 and further optimisations on Topaz's side before long videos are really obtainable.
 
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Yeah, I did actually find that page yesterday and it looked promising, but it seems the RTX 6000 ADA is a couple of years old now, so I'm thinking I'll need to wait until they maybe have something similar with the RTX Pro 6000
 
I did contemplate the idea of renting a 4x5090 cloud setup and trying that, as some places offer it. But you then need the $1100 Topz licence that enables multi GPU support. Then potentially reselling my extra hours, like yourself back in the day. I probably don't really have time to setting that up though right now. Was just kind of excited about the idea of getting this done for a side project, might be more of a wait and see how things progress the next few months at this point in time.
 
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Going to throw a random idea out here... have you thought about getting something like a mac mini with an m4 chip. While I have a mac mini m4 and still not a huge fan of apple os-x it does look like it's performance is pretty solid on topaz ai stuff from what I can tell.
 
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