News Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads' MTLink fabric tech challenges Nvidia's NVLink, can now scale to 10,000 GPUs for AI clusters

[Admin]

Moore Threads is making significant progress in the data center space and can now scale GPU clusters to 10,000 accelerators.

Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads' MTLink fabric tech challenges Nvidia's NVLink, can now scale to 10,000 GPUs for AI clusters : Read more

 

[eichwana]

Yet, there are claims that the MTT S4000 is competitive against unknown Nvidia GPUs.

What, like a GTX 1050?

 

[ivan_vy]

What, like a GTX 1050?

if you can't get the best you go for the next (best?) thing, also enterprise GPGPU tends to have bad graphics performance, software is another thing to consider, maybe the card was never meant to be a graphical powerhouse but a product for enterprise clients.

 

[RyderXx]

China likes to make big claims, but they are years of not decades behind, if they can't evenatch Nvidia A100 80GB than no, while Nvidia is already onto Blackwell GB200

 

[zsydeepsky]

China likes to make big claims, but they are years of not decades behind, if they can't evenatch Nvidia A100 80GB than no, while Nvidia is already onto Blackwell GB200

Nvidia would like to beg a differ.

Nvidia names Huawei a top competitor in major areas including AI chips
Nvidia has named Huawei a top competitor in a number of areas, including in the crucial production of processors that power artificial intelligence (AI) systems.


Nvidia's AI Chip Has A Tough Competitor From China - Huawei's Latest Ascend 910B
Nvidia Corp faces competition from Huawei Technologies Co’s latest AI chip, the Ascend 910B, which a Huawei executive claims matches or surpasses Nvidia’s A100 in some tests.

 

[alan.campbell99]

Using GDDR6. Are they restricted from using HBM (I presume GDDR is not)?

 

[zsydeepsky]

Using GDDR6. Are they restricted from using HBM (I presume GDDR is not)?

yes, all sanctioned Chinese companies have no access to HBM.
but for MooreThread, they don't really need HBM (for now), their position in Chinese market is "gaming GPU", which GDDR is sufficient for them, especially consider their current performance barely matches GTX 1060.

on the other hand, no access to HBM is indeed a problem for Huawei, so I saw some rumors about them also developing their own HBM.