Unsurprisingly it seems to be the GPU area I’m struggling in. I think ideally I’d want at least 10GB VRAM which incurs a huge price hike compared to the 8GB cards currently available, and that’s the only thing which may push me over budget. But I’m not sure if there are many/any benefits with getting a machine with a single 8GB GPU over just using some of the cloud services. I’ve played around on Colab but the limited runtimes and fair usage policy means I don’t want to rely on it for my entire project.