Comments on: The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:11:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Joseph Luppens https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comment-198240 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:53:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228#comment-198240 In reply to EC.

This makes a lot of sense and I learned a lot- thank you EC!

]]> By: Joseph Luppens https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comment-198239 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:52:09 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228#comment-198239 In reply to Timothy Prickett Morgan.

Thank for you Timothy for providing additional clarity and perspective. 🙂

]]> By: EC https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comment-198234 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 21:56:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228#comment-198234 In reply to Joseph Luppens.

Agree with TPM. Nvidia generally dominates the desktop PC Gaming market place with somewhere between 70-80% of the add-in card market share and higher than that in the ProVis segment. The “challenges” you inquire about are an over-inventory situation, which time will resolve in the near term. Long term, abandoning a very lucrative market like gaming doesn’t make sense. Streaming gaming services (via cloud or data center based gaming) will grow to dwarf Nvidia’s PC gaming add in card business (in many years). Nvidia will earn revenue in two areas, hardware sales to CSPs and software subscription sales to end users.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comment-198226 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:12:00 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228#comment-198226 In reply to Joseph Luppens.

It seems highly unlikely. The gaming business gives Nvidia the volume and a CUDA platform on every desktop. The pro viz business gives them render and inference engines. A lot of logic blocks are moved between the datacenter and the other two sets of customers. Nvidia would lose so much scale if it did that.

]]> By: Joseph Luppens https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comment-198218 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:43:38 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228#comment-198218 In reply to EC.

Thank you for the insights. Do you anticipate NVIDIA ultimately abandoning the gaming market to focus exclusively on the data center in light of the challenges they are having there now?

]]> By: EC https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comment-198175 Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:59:01 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228#comment-198175 Long live the King.

H100 will ship for years in a multitude of configurations. Dedicated transformer hardware and the CUDA stack assures it will be SOTA for some time to come. Nvidia’s regular software performance kickers are a thing of beauty. Makes one wonder when all the AI chip startups — even AMD and Intel — exhaust their ML budgets chasing, with little business to show, and with little hope of catching up. I can’t help recalling how many competitors said emphatically Nvidia “lucked” into the ML business, and “GPUs aren’t purpose-built” enough so had little in the way of a future. Yet Grace ships next year in what’s looking likely to provide another performance boost, this time on the system level. Nvidia just keeps seeing and raising the pot. The rest of us are made to wonder when all the purpose-built parts are going to show up and provide more than a press release to try and wrestle the crown away…

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