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		kristjansson 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big GPUs don't need big PCs Really why have the PCI/CPU artifice at all? Apple and Nvidia have the right idea: put the MPP on the same die/package as the CPU.

bigyabai 4 months ago | [–]

> put the MPP on the same die/package as the CPU.

That would help in latency-constrained workloads, but I don't think it would make much of a difference for AI or most HPC applications.

PunchyHamster 4 months ago | [–]

We need low power but high PCIE lane count CPUs for that. Just purely for shoving models from NVMe to GPU

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