[PR] NVIDIA Launches Its First Data Center GPU Based on the Ampere Architecture, the A100

[Tsing]

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GTC 2020 — NVIDIA today announced that the first GPU based on the NVIDIA® Ampere architecture, the NVIDIA A100, is in full production and shipping to customers worldwide.



The A100 draws on design breakthroughs in the NVIDIA Ampere architecture — offering the company’s largest leap in performance to date within its eight generations of GPUs — to unify AI training and inference and boost performance by up to 20x over its predecessors. A universal workload accelerator, the A100 is also built for data analytics, scientific computing and cloud graphics.



“The powerful trends of cloud computing and AI are driving a tectonic shift in data center designs so that what was once a sea of CPU-only servers is now GPU-accelerated computing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA A100 GPU is a 20x AI...

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[Grimlakin]

Isn't it interesting that they glossed over desktop cards? Moving right into business and simulation and ignoring the market of desktop. This presentation was NOT for us but for shareholders.

 

[Denpepe]

But can it run the Crysis remaster?

 

[Uvilla]

At 200k a node of 8 cards, it actually sounds reasonable for what you get.

 

[Grimlakin]

Part of me would love to get into AI simulation and trying intelligent decision trees. And the company I work for is trying out AI in specific areas. I wonder if I can talk my boss into ordering one of these for our lab so we can play with it... or take home one of those monster video cards.. not that I would do that I wouldn't.. no outputs on them anyway.

Still having that node in my ESXi cluster and being able to play with some crazy amount of AI specific cores.. that could be fun.