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Nvidia Grace CPU
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#22NVIDIA continues to vertically integrate their datacenter offerings. They bought mellanox to get infiniband. They tried to buy ARM - that didn't work. But they're building & bundling CPUs anyway. I guess when you're so far ahead on the compute side, it's all the peripherals that hold you back, so they're putting together a complete solution.
Nvidia's been making their own CPUs for a long time now. IIRC the first tegra was used in the Zune HD back in 2009. Hell they've even tried their hand at their own cpu core designs too. https://www.anandtech.com/show/7621/nvidia-reveals-first-det... https://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2
Maybe even more importantly: Tegra powers the Nintendo Switch.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nvidia's been making their own CPUs for a long time now. IIRC the first tegra was used in the Zune HD back in 2009. Hell they've even tried their hand at their own cpu core designs too. https://www.anandtech.com/show/7621/nvidia-reveals-first-det... https://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2
Maybe even more importantly: Tegra powers the Nintendo Switch.
Which is (EDIT: NOT) the most widely sold console ever.
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#24soooo... would something like this be a viable option for a non-mac desktop similar to the 'mac studio' ? def seems targeted at the cloud vendors and large labs... but it'd be great to have a box like that which could run linux.
It's viable in the sense that you can just stick a server motherboard inside of a desktop case. It certainly won't be cheap though.
This has been done as a commercial product with the Ampere ARM server chips. The base model is about $8k.
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#25Anyone have a sense for how much these will cost? Is this more akin to the Mac Studio that costs 4k or an A100 gpu that costs upward of 30k? Looking for an order of magnitude.
Probably on the order of $100k.
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#28soooo... would something like this be a viable option for a non-mac desktop similar to the 'mac studio' ? def seems targeted at the cloud vendors and large labs... but it'd be great to have a box like that which could run linux.
It’s a server CPU that runs any OS really (Arm SystemReady with UEFI and ACPI). However, the price tag will be too high for a lot of desktop buyers. (There are smaller Tegras around though)
It probably won't run Windows. But other operating systems, probably yes. Maybe Microsoft comes up with some sort of Windows Server DC Arm edition in the future so they can join in as well.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s a server CPU that runs any OS really (Arm SystemReady with UEFI and ACPI). However, the price tag will be too high for a lot of desktop buyers. (There are smaller Tegras around though)
It probably won't run Windows. But other operating systems, probably yes. Maybe Microsoft comes up with some sort of Windows Server DC Arm edition in the future so they can join in as well.
Modern Tegras can boot arm64 Windows. But yeah without a licensable Windows Server arm64 SKU, practical uses are quite limited.
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#30Anyone have a sense for how much these will cost? Is this more akin to the Mac Studio that costs 4k or an A100 gpu that costs upward of 30k? Looking for an order of magnitude.
Probably on the order of $100k.
That would be a real shame. I really want someone to make a high core count ARM processor in the price range of an AMD threadripper that can work with Nvidia gpus.