Nvidia's roadmap shows just how deep Moores Law is buried
Nvidia's roadmap shows just how deep Moores Law is buried
Nvidia's roadmap shows just how deep Moores Law is buried
This became obvious with the launch of Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators a year ago. The chips boasted 5x the performance uplift over Hopper, which sounded great until you realized it needed twice the die count, a new 4-bit datatype, and 500 watts more power to do it.
The reality was, normalized to FP16, Nvidia's top-specced Blackwell dies are only about 1.25x faster than a GH100 at 1,250 dense teraFLOPS versus 989 — there just happened to be two of them.
Sounds like Nvidia is trying to pull a Multi Frame Generation style misleading promo tactic with enterprise GPUs too.
Jesus Christ 600kW of power needed per rack. Most normal datacenters are still at something like 20 - 40 kW.