RegularJoeNvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform is the company’s next-generation architecture for AI data centers that includes an 88-core Vera CPU, Rubin GPU with 288 GB HBM4 memory, Rubin CPX GPU with 128 GB of GDDR7, NVLink 6.0 switch ASIC for scale-up rack-scale connectivity, BlueField-4 DPU with integrated SSD to store key-value cache, Spectrum-6 Photonics Ethernet, and Quantum-CX9 1.6 Tb/s Photonics InfiniBand NICs, as well as Spectrum-X Photonics Ethernet and Quantum-CX9 Photonics InfiniBand switching silicon for scale-out connectivity.
TropicalDingdong288 GB HBM4 memory
jfc…
Looking at the spec’s… fucking hell these things probably cost over 100k.
I wonder if we’ll see a generational performance leap with LLM’s scaling to this much memory.
boonhetCurrent models are speculated at 700 billion parameters plus. At 32 bit precision (half float), that’s 2.8TB of RAM per model, or about 10 of these units. There are ways to lower it, but if you’re trying to run full precision (say for training) you’d use over 2x this, something like maybe 4x depending on how you store gradients and updates, and then running full precision I’d reckon at 32bit probably. Possible I suppose they train at 32bit but I’d be kind of surprised.
Yeah they’re going to cost as much as a house.
I think we’ll see much larger active portions of larger MOEs, and larger context windows, which would be useful.
The non LLM models I run would benefit a lot from this, but I don’t know of I’ll ever be able to justify the cost of how much they’ll be.
yogurtwrongThe buzzwords make my head hurt. Sounds like a copypasta
Almost like an LLM wrote it…
This is what all the parts we wanted went to
Yeah, I wonder how long it will take them to clue in that no one wants to trade gaming for an AI fucking girlfriend ffs…
Until the money stops pouring in I suppose
setsubyouI mean if they came with a cool android body we could talk about it. It should at least be able to do cleaning and cooking. Otherwise my wife won’t like it.
It should at least be able to do cleaning and cooking.
So that’s what we need android girlfriends for.
roofuskitNot even, just the ones they deign to allow
xxce2AAbSo we can do what? De solder the individual ram chips and populate them on custom dimms?
Pass.
vaultdweller013Bringus is gonna make a weird gaming computer by shoving one into a movie rental kiosk.
You scoff but this is already being done in China. They desolder good chips from bad cards and add them to a mule card.
gnawmon
kittenzrulz123Your 5070 laptop has 8gb of vram? My desktop 3060 has 12gb of vram and its not even the TI version.
CorkyskogBut can it run Crysis?
And none of us will be allowed to have them
Only datacenters and only fortune 500 companies will be able to use anything Nvidia
I mean if you have the 3 million to spend on a rack of them, I am sure they would allow you to have them.
I do wonder what happens a few years down the road when everyone are replacing their gpus with latest and greatest variants what happens to the old racks? Do they get sold for pennies on the dollar because everyone else doing AI wants cutting edge?
So this is where our future ram buy went into? Fuck this planet then 🤣