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RangerJosey
lemmy.ml

Good. That asshole doesn't deserve any. Those should be used for PC gaming. Not creating the torment nexus.

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RangerJoseyreply
lemmy.ml

There's an old CRPG called Planescape Torment that's pretty brutal. And it's sequel, Torment: Tides of Numinera.

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kurcatoviumreply
lemm.ee

Planescape is awesome. The only game that came close to its story (and one I've played) is Disco Elysium, which is quite a feat. Given how DE is praised everywhere.

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Avicennareply
lemmy.world

Hello, I heard there is a Planescape club here. Recently replayed it. Can confirm it's not nostalgia, old games are better.

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RangerJoseyreply
lemmy.ml

I highly recommend it. It's not a direct sequel. But I can't explain further because spoilers. But I can say it's definitely worth a try.

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talreply
lemmy.today

Of course, Altman is referring to chonky enterprise-grade GPUs like those used in the Nvidia DGX B200 and DGX H200 AI platforms—the latter of which OpenAI was the first to take delivery of last year.

You wouldn't be using these for gaming (well, not of the 3D graphics sort).

They run in the tens of thousands of dollars each, as I recall.

Probably more correct to call them "parallel compute accelerator" cards than "GPUs". I don't think that they have a video out, even.

What they do have is a shit-ton of on-board RAM.

EDIT: Oh, apparently those are whole servers containing multiple GPUs.

https://www.trgdatacenters.com/resource/nvidia-dgx-buyers-guide-everything-you-need-to-know/

The NVIDIA DGX B200 is a physical server containing 8 Blackwell GPUs offering 1440GB RAM and 4TB system memory. It also includes 2 Intel CPUs and consumes 14.3kW power at max capacity.

For comparison, the most powerful electric space heater I have draws about a tenth that.

DGX H200 systems are currently available for $400,000 – $500,000. BasePOD and SuperPOD systems must be purchased directly from NVIDIA. There is a current waitlist for B200 DGX systems.

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pycoraxreply
lemmy.world

While the GPU's created aren't used for gaming, the wafers that the dies are made with could've been allocated to produce the dies for consumer level graphics cards right?

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Trainguyromreply
reddthat.com

So with datacenter GPUs (excellerators is the more accurate term, honestly), historically they were the exact same architecture as nVidia's gaming GPUs (usually about half to a full generation behind. But in the last 5 years or so they've moved to their own dedicated architectures.

But more to your question, the actual silicon that got etched and burned into these datacenter GPUs could've been used for anything. Could've become cellular modems, networking ASICs, SDR controllers, mobile SOCs, etc. etc. but more importantly these high dollar data center GPUs are usually produced on the newest, most expensive process nodes so the only hardware that would be produced would be similarly high dollar, and not like basic logic controllers used in dollar store junk

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RangerJoseyreply
lemmy.ml

He doesn't deserve them.

Bet he's not even using them for anything except a Govt Subsidized Crypto farm.

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sepiroth154
feddit.nl

this isn't how we want to operate, but it's hard to perfectly predict growth surges that lead to GPU shortages."

That's very ironic coming from you guys!

(Who develop prediciton models)

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