[PR] AMD EPYC Processors Ecosystem Continues to Grow with Integration into New NVIDIA DGX A100

[Tsing]

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AMD today announced the NVIDIA DGX A100, the third generation of the world’s most advanced AI system, is the latest high-performance computing system featuring 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. Delivering 5 petaflops of AI performance, the elastic architecture of the NVIDIA DGX A100 enables enterprises to accelerate diverse AI workloads such as data analytics, training, and inference.



NVIDIA DGX A100 leverages the high-performance capabilities, 128 cores, DDR4-3200MHz and PCIe 4 support from two AMD EPYC 7742 processors running at speeds up to 3.4 GHz¹. The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor is the first and only current...

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[Grimlakin]

I wonder if Nvidia finds it grating to use their competitor's CPU's like this?

 

[Brian_B]

I wonder if Nvidia finds it grating to use their competitor's CPU's like this?

If it moves nVidia products I doubt they care too much.

After all, you don’t hear too much about nVidias CPU/SoC anymore since they lost some big car contracts and their only console is now getting a lot of bad press about being underpowered for some ported games.

 

[Riccochet]

I wonder if Nvidia finds it grating to use their competitor's CPU's like this?

When you need compute density AMD has the crown.