▲ 656 ▼ Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith (www.theguardian.com) submitted 10 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 100 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 child) I'm still rocking a GTX970 from 2014 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago Do this: Calculate the total power cost of running it at 100% load since 2014 Calculate Flops/Watt and compare with modern hardware Calculate MTTF when running at 100% load. Remember that commercial support agreements are 4-5 years for a GPU, and if it dies after that, it stays dead. In AI, consider the full failure domain (1 broken GPU = 7+ GPUs out of commission) for the above calculation. You’ll probably end up with 4-6 years as the usable lifetime of your billion dollar investment. This entire industry is insane. (GTX 1080 here. Was considering an upgrade until the RAM prices hit.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago Do this: Calculate the total power cost of running it at 100% load since 2014 Calculate Flops/Watt and compare with modern hardware Calculate MTTF when running at 100% load. Remember that commercial support agreements are 4-5 years for a GPU, and if it dies after that, it stays dead. In AI, consider the full failure domain (1 broken GPU = 7+ GPUs out of commission) for the above calculation. You’ll probably end up with 4-6 years as the usable lifetime of your billion dollar investment. This entire industry is insane. (GTX 1080 here. Was considering an upgrade until the RAM prices hit.) permalink fedilink source parent