Some context: - In 2017, the v100 was a ~$10,000 GPU. I believe there was a PCI-e version but this is probably so cheap because SXM2 is going to be harder to use; - A 5090 has 1800GB/s of internal memory bandwidth (compared to 900GB/s in the 9 year old GPU). Of course a 5090 is substantially more expensive; - A 5090 has ~21k CUDA cores vs ~5k; - The current $10k NVidia GPU is the RTX 6000 Pro w/ 96GB of VRAM. It has…
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I bet 3 years, but otherwise agree.
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#12A little bit of local copium but neat read. Isn't a rasbpi with 16gb of RAM $300 now?
The latest Raspberry Pi 5 has one 32-bit channel (2x 16-bit subchannels) of LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM giving 17.1GB/s of bandwidth, 52x less than this GPU. Never mind lacking the CUDA and Tensor cores, so the FP16 performance is 102x less (307 GFLOPS vs 31.4 TFLOPS). So for £200, there's absolutely no comparison for this specific use-case.
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#13> The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising. Because humans write exactly like this /s
X is Y. Z is Y. And Alpha is genuinely Beta.
Classic LLM writing style.
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#14Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB is NOT DGX class as the author writes. It's HGX class. The V100 comes in two classes, SXM2 and SXM4, the latter coming with a Max of 80gb on board memory. Typically these are installed 8×A100 80GB SXM4 on an HGX riser, and what that gives you is NVSwitch fabric and 640GB of pooled HBM2e (on package stacked memory /w ~2 TB/s of memory bandwidth). 2u standard rack footprint too.
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#15Could probably avoid the crazy fan with a waterblock - I've seen a whole kit, v100 + PCIE adapter + block for £235. Yes, you'll have to pay for pump, radiators and radiator fans, but that should really quieten it down
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#17A little bit of local copium but neat read. Isn't a rasbpi with 16gb of RAM $300 now?
I don't understand what point you're trying to make here? Are you talking about the price of RAM?
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#19> The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.
Had to stop there. Annoying. I can't stand AI use for writing. It makes any otherwise great article feel so disingenuous.
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#20The AMD MI250X GPUs are also interesting - 128GB of HBM2E at 3TB/s, sometimes you see them second-hand for under $1k, the catch obviously is that it needs an OAM socket. Never seen an easy way to hook them up to a regular mainboard.
These are interesting, and offer beefy through put. No point in adapting to a PCI lane thought, stuck behind the slot-bus bottleneck.