heh, does Intel have any chance to catch up? They fell so far behind.
Nvidia Grace CPU
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#42Anyone 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.
Compare a 72C Grace against an 80C Ampere Altra which is priced at $4K (without RAM).
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#43How likely is it that one of AWS / GCP / Azure will deploy these? Nvidia has some relationships there for the A100 chips.
AWS has their own CPU. Microsoft is an investor in Ampere, but I am not sure if they will make one themselves or simply buy from Ampere. Google has responded with faster x86 instances, still no hint of their own ARM CPU. But judging from the past I dont think they are going to go with Nvidia. That is only the CPU though, they might deploy it as Grace + Hopper config.
With names like that, I assume that was the intention
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#44NVIDIA 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
Tegra X2 and Xavier are still sold today and contain NVIDIA-designed CPU cores. The team behind those is building new designs too, I wonder when they’re going to announce something.
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#45Time to sell intel shares?
That time was years and years ago. If you're just thinking about it now, you're already in a world of pain.
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#46"Grace?"
After 13 microarchitectures given the last names of historical figures, it's really weird to use someone's first name. Interesting that Anandtech and Wikipedia are both calling it Hopper. What on Earth are the marketing bros thinking?
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#47Interesting that this has 7x the cores of a M1 Ultra, but only 25% more memory bandwidth. Those will be some thirsty cores!
M1 Ultra bandwidth is for CPU and GPU (800GB/s). Grace is just the CPU. Hopper, the GPU, has it's own memory and bandwidth (3 TB/sec).
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#49"Grace?" After 13 microarchitectures given the last names of historical figures, it's really weird to use someone's first name. Interesting that Anandtech and Wikipedia are both calling it Hopper. What on Earth are the marketing bros thinking?
They also made the “Hopper” architecture to complement it.
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#50"Grace?" After 13 microarchitectures given the last names of historical figures, it's really weird to use someone's first name. Interesting that Anandtech and Wikipedia are both calling it Hopper. What on Earth are the marketing bros thinking?
The GPU is Hopper, which is in line with their naming scheme up till now. The CPU is call Grace. Clearly they are planning to continue the tradition of naming their architectures after famous scientists and the CPUs will take on the first name while the GPU will continue to use last.
So expect a future Einstein GPU to come with a matching Albert CPU.