The cluster seems to have already drawn attention, with 11 people reportedly watching the eBay listing and one prospective buyer already letting it sit in their cart. I guess the real question is not whether it will sell, but whether the buyer will choose $50 overnight shipping.
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pf100 In the future, for the plebs (we're the plebs here), we're going to have to form gamer coalitions where we pool our money to buy a datacenter and then strip the GPU cores and make our own gpu's out of the parts. Reply
usertests pf100 said: In the future, for the plebs (we're the plebs here), we're going to have to form gamer coalitions where we pool our money to buy a datacenter and then strip the GPU cores and make our own gpu's out of the parts. On the other hand, the future is bright for gaming on 11 year old integrated graphics. I7pSE2fLjsI OzmM9dFnJMs Reply
PEnns usertests said: On the other hand, the future is bright for gaming on 11 year old integrated graphics. I7pSE2fLjsI OzmM9dFnJMs The future (the past in this case) is so bright….I gotta wear shades…😊 OEH4jaQpOt4, list: RDOEH4jaQpOt4 Reply
bit_user pf100 said: In the future, for the plebs (we're the plebs here), we're going to have to form gamer coalitions where we pool our money to buy a datacenter and then strip the GPU cores and make our own gpu's out of the parts. You can usually find plenty of these parts being sold individually, on the used market. However, the sorts of GPUs they put on SXM cards, such as the A100's, can't be used for gaming. Everything after V100 has little or none of the hardware engines needed for interactive 3D graphics. Reply
Pierce2623 Yep the A100 might be technically “ampere” but it has very little in common with the gaming cards. As you mentioned, it has no actual render backend including ROPs etc. Aside from that it’s actually a different architecture from consumer Ampere and its also fabbed on TSMC N7 instead of that god-awful hot and inefficient Samsung 8nm node that was originally based in 12nm technology. Reply
bit_user Pierce2623 said: Yep the A100 might be technically “ampere” but it has very little in common with the gaming cards. As you mentioned, it has no actual render backend including ROPs etc. Aside from that it’s actually a different architecture from consumer Ampere and its also fabbed on TSMC N7 instead of that god-awful hot and inefficient Samsung 8nm node that was originally based in 12nm technology. I agree with everything you said, except that I think Anandtech reported that one of the SMs actually had the rendering fixed-function units and it might also have a display controller. So, it could technically be used on a card with a display output, but you'd get like iGPU-level performance in games. I never heard anything about H100, Bx00, or Rubin having any of that. So, A100 might've been the end of the line for anything you could put on a proper PCIe graphics card. Reply
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