Re:Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more perfor...
by PeCaN on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:18PM
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> Do you think this will be the GPU generation when consumer motherboards capable of pushing things to the GPU by NVLink will appear as well?
first you'll need CPUs that support NVLink, and that's currently limited to the not so consumer oriented POWER9.
Re:Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more perfor...
by lightsighter on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:20PM
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NVLink works fine between GPUs even if the CPUs are x86. Just look at the NVIDIA DGX boxes/stations.
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NVLin...
Re:Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more perfor...
by zamadatix on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:39AM
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"NVLink is a wire-based communications protocol for near-range semiconductor communications developed by Nvidia that can be used for data and control code transfers in processor systems between CPUs and GPUs and solely between GPUs"
Sounds like you're assuming operational mode A when this is going to be operational mode B.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...
Most of it is dramatically lit renderings of fans and vacuous marketing-speak of course, but there's a tidbit near the bottom of the page about NVLink I find interesting.
I guess NVLink is finally becoming relevant as a consumer technology then? Do you think this will be the GPU generation when consumer motherboards capable of pushing things to the GPU by NVLink will appear as well?