The full amps - RTX A6000 now Available

[porina]

2 hours ago, Blade of Grass said:

I would expect stuff like FFT, LU Factorization, PageRank, and some other workloads would benefit from the bandwidth. 

Maybe you're thinking of a different FFT use case than I'm familiar with, but you can already run an insanely huge FFT on a single GPU, and it would be totally crippled if you ever have to go off card for data. The 50GB/s example I used earlier for ram will already limit a quad core CPU doing a FFT assuming it is of a size that doesn't fit entirely on CPU cache, and a GPU is maybe an order of magnitude faster, depending on how many cores you throw at it. Those more involved in the math/coding side have been speculating if AMD's infinity cache might help here, although I'm not aware any of them have managed to get one to try yet. They basically consider it primarily a bandwidth limited compute use case.

[Blade of Grass]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

Maybe you're thinking of a different FFT use case than I'm familiar with, but you can already run an insanely huge FFT on a single GPU, and it would be totally crippled if you ever have to go off card for data. The 50GB/s example I used earlier for ram will already limit a quad core CPU doing a FFT assuming it is of a size that doesn't fit entirely on CPU cache, and a GPU is maybe an order of magnitude faster, depending on how many cores you throw at it. Those more involved in the math/coding side have been speculating if AMD's infinity cache might help here, although I'm not aware any of them have managed to get one to try yet. They basically consider it primarily a bandwidth limited compute use case.

Yeah, I'm just talking about theoretical cases, if you had a dataset large enough

 

[thechinchinsong]

On 12/17/2020 at 2:00 PM, DildorTheDecent said:

What a good looking card. That nvlink bridge looks great as well.

Obviously performance-wise it would suffer greatly and it would probably be only for a tiny, tiny fraction of potential customers, but I wouldn't mind some mainstream Geforce founder's edition cards with these types of coolers, especially if it means lower costs compared to the beefy Ampere and Turing founder's edition coolers. I'm not sure but do any board partners offer blower style cards for Ampere?

[igormp]

25 minutes ago, thechinchinsong said:

I'm not sure but do any board partners offer blower style cards for Ampere?

Gigabyte has a blower 3090. MSI seems to have released a blower 3090 too.

The FE consumer cards work kinda like a blower card too, so stacking many of those together shouldn't be that bad.

[thechinchinsong]

42 minutes ago, igormp said:

Gigabyte has a blower 3090. MSI seems to have released a blower 3090 too.

The FE consumer cards work kinda like a blower card too, so stacking many of those together shouldn't be that bad.

Took a look at them and they look decent, but I still like the look of these A-series card blowers a bit better. FE consumer cards are great with airflow and even with mGPU airflow, but tbh I'm just reminiscing on how the maxwell and keplar reference blower cards looked.