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They'll let you do some things on a consumer card as soon as they can make sure that you can't effectively use the consumer card in place of an enterprise card.
by sjsdaiuasgdia 3y ago
They'll let you do some things on a consumer card as soon as they can make sure that you can't effectively use the consumer card in place of an enterprise card.
- throwaway48476 3y ago[flagged]
- wmf 3y agoNvidia has their own market segmentation tactics, like a 24GB 4090 is $2,000 and the 48GB version is $7,000.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoWhy not buy 2x24GB cards and use SLI with CUDA? Or does that represent a bottleneck-so-bad that it's a dealkiller and worth the $3000 premium?
- wmf 3y agoSLI no longer exists.
- imtringued 3y agoLlama.cpp wasn't optimized for multi GPU setups. You need to split individual layers onto the GPU instead of simple offloading.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoso, artificial market segmentation? ...that's exactly how you get disruptive competition.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 3y agoIt's worth noting this is a game nvidia has already been playing for a long time by intentionally limiting the performance of higher precision floating point operations on consumer cards.