Inside The World's Largest GPU: Nvidia Details NVSwitch

[PaulAlcorn]

Nvidia shared more details on its NVSwitch technology, the key enabling feature of the "World's Largest GPU," here at Hot Chips 2018.

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[AgentLozen]

That thing's pretty beefy. I'd like to give it a spin with Crysis on a 4K monitor.

 

[yueeatcat]

But can it run solitaire?

 

[darkomaledictus]

Solitaire doesn't run... it glides 😉.

 

[hanshenrik123]

but can it run Crysis?

 

[Kenneth Barker]

Still less power consumption than a single Vega 64

 

[ghostbit]

Who wouldn't want plex to be able to transcode 31 streams?!

 

[prestorjon]

It can simulate the universe that you're playing solitaire in.

 

[bit_user]

The only other unanswered question is when Nvidia will update to a Turing-based DGX-3.

I don't expect they will. Turing is really like Volta 2.0. For AI, the only substantial gain is the new integer-based inferencing capability of the Turing-generation tensor cores.

The only other thing they have to gain by releasing a new server GPU at 12 nm would be to make an AI-focused version that cuts back on fp64 throughput. But, I don't know if they could save enough die space to make that worthwhile, nor do I know if there's a big enough HPC market for Volta without Tensor cores.

An argument against anything Turing-based is that most HPC and AI customers probably have no interest in the RT cores. So, I'm not sure we'll see them in whatever succeeds the V100. Or maybe just enough to provide API-level compatibility.

 

[bit_user]

That thing's pretty beefy. I'd like to give it a spin with Crysis on a 4K monitor.

You've seen this?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12170/nvidia-titan-v-preview-titanomachy/8

The problem is that the DGX-2 GPUs have no video output. I'm also not sure if Crysis could use more than one of them.

So, your best bet is a Titan V, Quadro GV100, or RTX 2080 Ti.

 

[AgentLozen]

A graphics card with no video output huh? Well I don't want it anymore. Nvidia has lost a loyal customer.

 

[PaulAlcorn]

A graphics card with no video output huh? Well I don't want it anymore. Nvidia has lost a loyal customer.

 

[bloodroses]

but can it run Crysis?

No, but it can run Super Mario Odyssey, Zelda: BOTW, etc... ooops, wrong Nvidia powered Switch

 

[thecount23]

Yes yes, but can it run Quake III Arena?

 

[Peter Martin]

it could all be used as a nefarious tool as well.