Nvidia Blackwell B200 Chip is 4X Faster than the H100 – 1 Exaflop in a Rack
March 18, 2024 by Brian Wang
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/03/n ... -h100.html
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.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 for Cheaper Flagship Phones
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 combines features of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Gen 2.
By Ryan Whitwam March 19, 2024
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. https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/qual ... hip-phones
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.
Samsung Shows Off 32Gb/s GDDR7 Memory Modules at Nvidia GTC
The company displayed its latest wares at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference this week, hinting at a partnership for the RTX 50-series.
By Josh Norem March 20, 2024 https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/sams ... nvidia-gtc
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.
Seems like progress in hardware for AI, AI and robotics is speeding up.
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.
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.
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.
And that's just one chip, never mind combining them into clusters.
Actually one chip is 104 billion transistors (still not a small number). Built on the 4nm TSMC production process. Two chips combined into one are 208 BT, a bit like AMD Zen, which also combines "chiplets" working together as one. Intel uses tiles for their current server chips ("Emerald Rapids"). Each tile is 32 cores (actually 33 with 1 disabled). Two tiles are 64 cores 128 threads.
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.
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.
