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Re:Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut by bambax on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:37AM (#32776842)
What is vertical power?
Re:Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut by pclmulqdq on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:03AM (#32778651)
Vertical power delivery involves putting the voltage regulators on the opposite side of the circuit board of the chip, so that high-current power supplies travel a minimum distance. This reduces both resistance and inductance of the paths that power takes to the transistors, which means significantly less loss. That, in turn, means less heat related to those losses and less infrastructure to prevent those losses (fewer bypass capacitors, etc), so more of the thermal and area budgets can go to compute.
Re:Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut by bambax on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:10AM (#32779451)
Aaah, opposite side as in... under side? Now I get it, thanks!!