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The NVIDIA Blackwell platform was announced today. It will run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than the H100.

The Blackwell GPU architecture has six transformative technologies for accelerated computing, which will help unlock breakthroughs in data processing, engineering simulation, electronic design automation, computer-aided drug design, quantum computing and generative AI — all emerging industry opportunities for NVIDIA.

Blackwell will be used Amazon Web Services, Dell Technologies, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, Tesla and xAI and many more.

As expected, Qualcomm has revealed a new Arm chip for smartphones in the Snapdragon 8 family. However, the latest Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is not a successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3—yes, it's another instance of Qualcomm's famously confusing model names. Instead, you'll see this chip in "budget flagship" smartphones that cost less than the top-of-the-line units. However, the new part still has most of the high-end features you'd expect from Snapdragon 8 chips.
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Gen 3 use TSMC's 4nm process node, and the 8s Gen 3 is no different. This architectural consistency helped to integrate features of the Gen 2 and Gen 3 to make a chip that offers good performance at a lower price.

Nvidia's GTC conference this week was all about AI and included the announcement of its next-generation Blackwell architecture. The data center hardware unveiled at the show uses high-bandwidth memory (HBM), so it's not too surprising to hear Samsung was at the event as well since it makes that kind of memory. However, it is now being reported that the company was also showing off its upcoming GDDR7 modules for gaming GPUs. The trade show sighting gives us the first concrete info on the speeds that may be offered when the new memory arrives in GPUs this year.

German website Hardwareluxx was at the show wandering around and spotted a previously unnoticed display at the Samsung booth touting the benefits of its GDDR7 memory solution. What makes this interesting is there's been some confusion about the specs of the first GDDR7 modules that will come to market, as we've heard about a range of offerings spanning 28Gb/s up to 36Gb/s. The placard at the Samsung booth states it's offering 2GB modules running at 32Gb/s, which could be what we see coming to future GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. However, Hardwareluxx reports that even though 32Gb/s modules were on display, Nvidia will opt for 28Gb/s chips for the RTX 50 series to assist with efficiency.

firestar464 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:44 pm trying to imagine that reproduced with vacuum tubes lmao like in fallout

wjfox wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:35 pm 208 billion transistors

And that's just one chip, never mind combining them into clusters.

Tadasuke wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:03 am Despite what Jensen Huang wants us to believe, performance for your everyday person hasn't really changed that much in recent years.

4060 is 135% faster in 1080p and 145% in 1440p gaming than 1060 from 2016. Prices are about the same when counting inflation. There is 33% more memory on the 4060.



source: https://www.pcmag.com/articles/nvidia-g ... to-upgrade