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Next gen Nvidia 30x0 series, can have direct access to SSD without hitting the CPU. In that case would they be any worse than cpus on any workloads? I guess yo
by kanwisher 6y ago
Next gen Nvidia 30x0 series, can have direct access to SSD without hitting the CPU. In that case would they be any worse than cpus on any workloads? I guess you could still have larger ram amounts on the cpu, albeit slower ram usually
- WanderPanda 6y agoWow nvidia is selling SBCs now?
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoNo, there's a new thing about giving GPUs some kind of DMA to storage. And it's pointless on HDDs, so it's only discussed in terms of SSDs. Microsoft is bringing the DirectStorage API from XBox to Windows, Nvidia calls theirs RTX IO. I think they're the same class of idea, like Vulken vs. Metal. They do have SBCs, I think, but other than being the basis for the Nintendo Switch I haven't heard much about them.
- manigandham 6y agoLike this? https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-kit https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-...
- ramoz 6y agoHmm - in our case all of the embeddings we process exist on SSD already. Idk enough here honestly but will see what I can learn.
- t0mas88 6y agoInteresting, then the only difference is that a CPU easily as 256 GB ram and a high end GPU typically 16 GB or so? May Nvidia will start to create ML type cards with memory expansion options at some point.
- dogma1138 6y agoThat's for gaming (new DirectX feature), GPUDirect Storage is supported on older GPUs as well for compute. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/
- shaklee3 6y agoGpudirect is only on the data center cards afaik.