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I think that's why they chose the K80 as well. By today's standards it's an extremely old card (2 generations behind), but it's the last professional series car
by shaklee3 10y ago
I think that's why they chose the K80 as well. By today's standards it's an extremely old card (2 generations behind), but it's the last professional series card to feature two processors on it. It's easier for them to sell, I guess.
- boulos 10y agoActually, it's more that it's the best Kepler class part. Maxwell, unfortunately, doesn't have full-speed double precision, locking out an entire (important) segment of the market. As I said in another thread, we'll have P100s and so on as soon as we can.
- shaklee3 10y agoFair enough, but Maxwell makes up for the lack of DP with other features that other customers appreciate more. Pascal will solve all those issues, but the P100 unfortunately will probably be extremely expensive to use because of the cost of the card.
- mrb 10y agoM60 was the last to feature 2 GPUs. See this convenient reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tesla#Specifications_and_configurations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tesla#Specifications_an... But the double precision perf of M60 is very low and less than the K80 due to limitations of the Maxwell microarchitecture. So we could say K80 is the last decent dual-GPU Nvidia card...
- shaklee3 10y agoAh, sorry, I forgot about that one. The Tesla Maxwells came much, much later after the Geforce cards, so it wasn't very long until Pascal was released. To meet all the needs of the customer, Maxwell was likely not a good choice, but the single precision was much better than Kepler.