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Re:New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs i... by m0zg on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:23PM (#23762359)
FYI: NVIDIA is notorious for bullshit benchmarks. There's no way it'll be 2.5x the speed of V100 on any kind of a realistic workload.
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Re:New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs i... by codemk8 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:08PM (#23762869)
Agree. That is theoretical speed up. Most applications are bandwidth bounded thus cannot get that ratio.
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