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Each MIG gets its own dedicated compute resources, caches, memory and memory bandwidth. With this feature, NVIDIA can take an A100 and split it up into as many as seven partitions. Multi-Instance GPUs (MIG) are a feature that when you hear about it makes a lot of sense. Patrick With Ampere Altra 80 Core In Hand At Ampere HQ Cover This may well happen in future generations so it does not need to design-in a competitor’s solution. It seems like NVIDIA does not have enough faith in Arm server CPUs to move its flagship DGX platform to Arm today. The other option would have been to utilize an Ampere Altra Q80-30 or similar as part of NVIDIA CUDA on Arm. NVIDIA wanted to stay x86 rather than go to POWER for Gen4 support.
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NVIDIA’s partners will also likely look to the AMD EPYC 7002 Series to get PCIe Gen4 capable CPUs paired to the latest NVIDIA GPUs. Still, NVIDIA had to move to the AMD solution to get PCIe Gen4. While Intel is decisively going after NVIDIA with its Xe HPC GPU and Habana Labs acquisition, AMD is a GPU competitor today. With Intel’s major delays of the Ice Lake Xeon platform that will include PCIe Gen4, NVIDIA was forced to move to the AMD EPYC 64-core PCIe Gen4 capable chips for its flagship DGX A100 solution. That observation seems to be confirmed along with the PCIe Gen4 observation. We figured this was the case recently in NVIDIA A100 HGX-2 Edition Shows Updated Specs. NVLink speeds have doubled to 600GB/s from 300GB/s. PCIe cards will still be limited by thermals so we expect lower power there. Currently, the DGX-2h rates its Tesla V100’s at 450W so our sense is that 400W is not the highest level we will see. In our recent Inspur NF5488M5 Review A Unique 8x NVIDIA Tesla V100 Server we noted that “Volta-Next” (e.g. Even with the 7nm shrink, power is going up, now rated at 400W. This is a big process shrink that helps NVIDIA pack in much higher densities for more compute. As a result, we would not expect HBM2 in the next GeForce GPUs.įor die size, the 54B transistor GPU measures 826mm2 and is built on TSMC 7nm. He did not say it, but it is likely cost. NVIDIA A100 PackageĪs a quick note, on the pre-keynote briefing, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA hinted that there is a reason NVIDIA does not use HBM2 on its consumer GPUs.
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We will update if more details emerge than we have while writing this (before the keynote is live.) Memory bandwidth is up to 1.6TB/s. Perhaps NVIDIA is planning a 48GB version in the future or there is something else going on. A few folks reached out asking why it looks like the A100 package has six Samsung HBM2 stacks but the total is not divisible by 6. That is a jump, but a more measured jump. Memory has gone from 16GB of HBM2 on the Tesla P100 to 16GB and 32GB on the Tesla V100 and now 40GB. You can read the presentation on structural sparsity here. With structural sparsity, the A100 can take advantage of sparse models and avoid doing unnecessary computations. Those new formats are augmented by Tensor Cores and structural sparsity. Lower bits in each number mean less data needs to be moved and faster calculations. NVIDIA A100 TF32 Formatīoth BFLOAT16 and TF32 are numerical formats that retain acceptable accuracy while greatly reducing the bits that are used. While traditional FP64 double precision is increasing, the accelerators and new formats are on a different curve. At the same time, raw FP64 (non-Tensor Core) performance, for example, has gone from 5.3 TFLOPS with the Tesla P100, 7.5 TFLOPS for the SXM2 Tesla V100 (a bit more in the SXM3 versions), and up to 9.7 TFLOPS in the A100.
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This is exceedingly important because it is how NVIDIA is getting claims of 10-20x the performance of previous generations. Part of the story of the NVIDIA A100’s evolution from the Tesla P100 and Tesla V100 is that it is designed to handle BFLOAT16, TF32, and other new computation formats. NVIDIA is inventing new math formats and adding Tensor Core acceleration to many of these. Let us dive into some of these details to see why they are impactful. We are going to discuss more of that in a bit. You may ask yourself, what are the asterisks next to many of those numbers, NVIDIA says those are the numbers with structural sparsity enabled. Let us start with the A100 key specs: NVIDIA A100 Specs Note the cards are actually labeled as GA100 but we are using A100 to align with NVIDIA’s marketing materials. Today, that measuring stick changes, and takes a big leap with the NVIDIA A100. Every AI company measures its performance to the Tesla V100. Intel compares its CPUs and AI accelerators to Tesla V100 GPUs for HPC workloads.
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Since its release in 2017, the NVIDIA Tesla V100 has been the industry reference point for accelerator performance.