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Typical HN kneejerk comments. The GeForce series cards are designed, spec'd, priced for consumer usage. Nvidia has to warranty and guarantee what they sell, co
by tfolbrecht 9y ago
Typical HN kneejerk comments.
The GeForce series cards are designed, spec'd, priced for consumer usage. Nvidia has to warranty and guarantee what they sell, consumer confidence is important.
When you're doing ML or blockchain Proof-of-Work the card becomes a consumable. Is it fair for manufacturers to guarantee them like they would a consumer desktop or gaming GPU? You expect people who play with ML in their free time to subsidize your GPU cluster?
That said, hope this gets people angry enough to make TF support OpenCL. CUDA is too pervasive.
- samfisher83 9y agoThey want people to buy their more expensive card for ML stuff. The silicon probably isn't all that different.
- tfolbrecht 9y agoNot all chips are born equal and that's why faulty/poor performance cores and components are deactivated and chips sold in tiers. Look into it, same silicon on paper, but not on silicon. The problem comes from those specs and the warranties, guarantees, consumer protection, etc. So decide, overbuilt GPUs (more expensive), firmware gimped GPUs (less performant), or non warrantied( risky ).