I anticipate some kind of futures on GPUs based on a number of factors such as the availability for rent, the availability at your marketplace, and the models currently available for self-hosting.
Yes, those types of differences across different providers is what the finance world calls basis risk. As more and more transactions take place, we hope to bring transparency into how different components/specs can change pricing, and make them tradable too.
Basis risk is also a big part of futures markets, how much does spot price differ from forward pricing and why. For physical GPUs, theory would expect a downward sloping forward curve due to the depreciation factor, but from what we have seen recently, sometimes not the case!
