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Not a whole lot of content in the article... we all know GPUs are good for many data processing or machine learning tasks. Clearly gaming was the impetus to dev
by benkuykendall 10y ago
Not a whole lot of content in the article... we all know GPUs are good for many data processing or machine learning tasks. Clearly gaming was the impetus to develop high performance GPUs initially, but I wonder if it still holds true that gamers "subsidize" big data significantly. Are most high-performance GPUs sold for gaming or for data processing?
- jsnell 10y agoI believe HPC still accounts for under 10% of Nvidia's GPU sales, so it is almost certainly true that there's no way it could be a profitable business if the R&D couldn't be shared with the gaming and workstation GPUs. On the other hand, the HPC GPUs are supposed to have by far the best margins of any of their products. So talking about "subsidizing" seems totally misguided.
- phreeza 10y agoDo you have a source for that 10% figure?
- jsnell 10y agoSure, look at the "revenue by markets" slide here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10050/nvidia-announces-q4-fy-2016-results-record-quarter-and-record-year http://www.anandtech.com/show/10050/nvidia-announces-q4-fy-2...
- krapht 10y agohttp://www.anandtech.com/show/9500/nvidia-fy-2016-q2-results http://www.anandtech.com/show/9500/nvidia-fy-2016-q2-results The commentators on HN are vastly overestimating the size of the machine learning market compared to the size of the gaming market.
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