Nvidijin izjemno drag grafični procesor H100 Hopper je bil preizkušen v igrah

Nvidijin izjemno drag grafični procesor H100 Hopper je bil preizkušen v igrah

Časovni žig: 21. junij 2023 2:15
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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 GPU H100 Hopper. Da, ta pošastni procesor, ki lahko stane 30,000 $ ali več, ima velik del svojega DNK-ja s skromnimi igralnimi grafičnimi karticami GeForce.

Kot zabaven poskus, YouTuber Geekerwan (Via Tomova strojna oprema) je vzel eno od teh pošastnih kart za vrtenje skozi nekaj igralnih meril. Rezultati so bili zanimivi, čeprav na koncu dobri za hihitanje, če nič drugega.

Različica H100, ki jo je uporabil Geekerwan, je bila različica PCIe. Opremljen je bil z 80 GB pomnilnika HBM2e, 14,592 jedri CUDA in 350 W TDP. Primerjajte to z an 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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