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Nvidia wants you to buy their datacenter or professional cards for AI. Those often come with better perf/W targets, more VRAM, and better form factors allowing
by 6SixTy 2y ago
Nvidia wants you to buy their datacenter or professional cards for AI. Those often come with better perf/W targets, more VRAM, and better form factors allowing for a higher compute density.
For consumers, they do not care.
PCIe Gen 4 dictates a tighter tolerance on signalling to achieve a faster bus speed, and it took quite a good amount of time for good quality Gen 4 risers to come to market. I have zero doubt in my mind that Gen 5 steps that up even further making the product design just that much harder.
- throwaway48476 2y agoIn the server space there is gen 5 cabling but not gen 5 risers.
- throwaway2037 2y ago> gen 5 cabling Do you mean OCuLink? Honestly, I never thought about how 1U+ rackmount servers handle PCIe Gen5 wiring/timing issues between NVMe drives (front), GPUs/NICs (rear), and CPUs (middle).
- throwaway48476 2y agoOCuLink has been superseded by MCIO. I was speaking of the custom gen 5 cabled nvme backplane most servers have.