Nvidias ultrateure H100-Hopper-GPU wird in Spielen getestet

Nvidias ultrateure H100-Hopper-GPU wird in Spielen getestet

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In case you didn’t know, AI and high performance computing is big business. There’s a reason Nvidia has a market cap of over a trillion dollars. That reason is exploding demand for its enterprise products including the mighty H100 Hopper-GPU. Ja, dieser Monsterprozessor, der 30,000 US-Dollar oder mehr kosten kann, hat viele seiner DNA mit einfachen GeForce-Gaming-Grafikkarten gemeinsam.

Als lustiges Experiment, YouTuber Geekerwan (via Tom Hardware) testete mit einer dieser Monsterkarten ein paar Gaming-Benchmarks. Die Ergebnisse waren interessant, aber letztendlich zumindest zum Lachen gut.

Die von Geekerwan verwendete H100-Variante war die PCIe-Version. Es war mit 80 GB HBM2e-Speicher, 14,592 CUDA-Kernen und einer TDP von 350 W ausgestattet. Vergleichen Sie das mit einem RTX 4090 with 24Gb of GDDR6X, 16,384 CUDA cores and a 450W TDP. The H100 shouldn’t be a slouch right? 

Actually it’s very poor at gaming, with the card producing a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score of just 2,681. That’s less than Radeon 680M integrated graphics. In Red Dead Redemption 2, the card couldn’t even hit 30 FPS at 1080p.

In all seriousness, these results aren’t surprising. While the H100 is an immensely powerful card, it’s not designed for graphics applications. In fact, it doesn’t even have display outputs. The system needed a secondary GPU to provide a display. It also lacks some other fixed hardware critical for gaming.

Then there’s the fact the driver is completely unoptimized for gaming. During the gaming tests, the GPUs power consumption was sub 100W, indicating a major lack of utilization.

So, if you’ve got $30,000 to burn, buy a car. Or buy an RTX 4090 system and a car with the money you’ll have left over. The mighty H100 card is not what you’d use to power the ultimate gaming rig. 

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