Consider the 3090, same memory but was way cheaper than the 4090 when I was looking, might be a good trade off if you don't really need the 40 speed boost.
yes even MI300 from AMD is data center only just like A100 and H100.
I guess what Intel is missing is that it does not have a PC version GPU(ARC is far behind AMD and Nvidia GPU cards), so it can not establish its developer ecosystem and its OneAPI is a hard sell for its AI plan.
Either make ARC or whatever GPU as good as Nvidia/AMD graphic cards, or at least make lots of great AI compute accelerator stick to stay in the game, or no future in the AI era for Intel, sadly.
Everyone talks about Nvidia GPUs and AMD MI250/MI300, where is Intel? Would love to have a 3rd player.