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We almost bought a second GPU for an OCR pipeline. Optimizing the existing one gave 15x instead. How often is “buy more hardware” the wrong fix?

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    We almost bought a second GPU for an OCR pipeline. Optimizing the existing one gave 15x instead. How often is “buy more hardware” the wrong fix?

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