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could lobby NVIDIA/AMD to somehow implement restrictions on what the Gaming SKUs Infact the opposite has happened. NVidia has restricted consumer cards from DC

by gaius 9y ago

could lobby NVIDIA/AMD to somehow implement restrictions on what the Gaming SKUs Infact the opposite has happened. NVidia has restricted consumer cards from DCs with an exception for blockchains! They are very much making hay while the sun shines

hyperpallium 9y ago
I think something interesting will happen with TPU's. nvidia's titan v has a 110 TFLOPS TPU (and only 12 TF GPU iirc). Ir's $3000, but that seems not reflect costs, but avoid cannablizing their even higher-end scientific computing offerings... so price could come down (to forestall competition). Can TPUs give better ROI than GPUs? Conversely, will games end up exploiting TPUs?
- dogma1138 9y ago
  Google’s TPU is a GPU without the silicon burden of needing to render graphics so no.
  - hyperpallium 9y ago
    I referred to nvidia's titan v, which is independent of google's tpu. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/ I also didn't say it would be used for rendering in games, but that it could be used by games. Games can use GPUs for compute, for physics, simulation amd even AI. Some is already happening. TPUs would be even better. to I find that interesting. The point of my comment was that TPUs providing some differentiation relevant to mining vs gaming would affect prices.
    - dogma1138 9y ago
      Why exactly the TPU would be better? it's not a general computation processor it only does MMA.
      - hyperpallium 9y ago
        I don't know, but at 110 TF for $3000, it would be worthwhile figuring out some way to use it.
        dogma1138 9y ago
        For gaming? the 110 TF of the Titan V are also very very very conditional they are only applied when you are doing mixed precision MMA for any other operations you aren't getting 110TF....
        hyperpallium 9y ago
        What about for mining?

by gaius 9y ago

hyperpallium 9y ago

I think something interesting will happen with TPU's. nvidia's titan v has a 110 TFLOPS TPU (and only 12 TF GPU iirc). Ir's $3000, but that seems not reflect costs, but avoid cannablizing their even higher-end scientific computing offerings... so price could come down (to forestall competition). Can TPUs give better ROI than GPUs? Conversely, will games end up exploiting TPUs?

dogma1138 9y ago
Google’s TPU is a GPU without the silicon burden of needing to render graphics so no.
- hyperpallium 9y ago
  I referred to nvidia's titan v, which is independent of google's tpu. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/ I also didn't say it would be used for rendering in games, but that it could be used by games. Games can use GPUs for compute, for physics, simulation amd even AI. Some is already happening. TPUs would be even better. to I find that interesting. The point of my comment was that TPUs providing some differentiation relevant to mining vs gaming would affect prices.
  - dogma1138 9y ago
    Why exactly the TPU would be better? it's not a general computation processor it only does MMA.
    - hyperpallium 9y ago
      I don't know, but at 110 TF for $3000, it would be worthwhile figuring out some way to use it.
      - dogma1138 9y ago
        For gaming? the 110 TF of the Titan V are also very very very conditional they are only applied when you are doing mixed precision MMA for any other operations you aren't getting 110TF....
        hyperpallium 9y ago
        What about for mining?