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Very likely. AFAIK there’re only 4 differences between GeForce and Tesla/Grid: more and faster VRAM, more FP64 GFlops on most GPUs, unlimited count of nvenc en
by Const-me 5y ago
Very likely.
AFAIK there’re only 4 differences between GeForce and Tesla/Grid: more and faster VRAM, more FP64 GFlops on most GPUs, unlimited count of nvenc encoding streams versus 2 on GeForce, and support for virtualization. Only the first two are hardware differences, the other 2 are software.
Another thing about virtualization, it sounds ridiculous but nVidia charges non-trivial per-user fee to allow people to use the hardware they already own. Specifically, for virtual workstation they want $450 per concurrent user. That’s on top of the $3000-$12000 purchase price of these GPUs.
- rbanffy 5y ago> fee to allow people to use the hardware they already own. IBM does that with mainframes, but, at least, it’s hardware they own that they shipped in the box for you to rent out when needed or to buy and enable.
- moondev 5y agoWow I did not know this. I've been thinking about picking up an Nvidia card to play with vgpu on vsphere - so it sounds like this would be impossible without an additional license fee?! What a bummer.
- Const-me 5y agoAccording to nVidia, you gonna need these expensive data center-targeted GPUs (no consumer cards), plus extra licenses. Details and pricing are in that PDF: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-visualization/solutions/resources/documents1/Virtual-GPU-Packaging-and-Licensing-Guide.pdf https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...