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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by dagw on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:59AM (#31002029)
We noticed that our RTXs, although considered gaming cards, are comparable (if not better) in performance to Tesla V100

You don't buy Tesla cards because you care about maximizing operations pr second, you buy them because you care about operations pr KWh.

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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @10:20AM (#31003101)
No, you buy tesla cards so Nvidia doesn't sue you and stop providing firmware.
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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by lostmsu on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @10:24PM (#31010576)
That's a good point. 3090 RTX may be 1.5x faster than my Titan V, but Titan V consumes 2x less energy on the same load while being much older generation card.
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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by dagw on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:44AM (#31012127)
Plus less energy consumption means less heat generated which means you can pack them tighter and you can spend less on cooling etc etc. At scale these things really add app.
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