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Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by smoldesu on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:05PM (#33198507)
Actual use cases? Ludicrously quick AI inferencing, media transcoding, 3D render offloading, SIMD-bound simulations and anything that uses CUDA. Dedicated graphics will dominate in these scenarios, and it's such a large market that the 4090 is hardly the tip of the iceberg. Nvidia's server-grade AI chips are genuine monsters. People definitely use these cards, and there's a demand to scale them for datacenters too.

Gaming still drives the sales, but you'd be surprised by what you can do with a $500 GPU plugged into a Linux box.

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Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by kkielhofner on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:11PM (#33198860)
Is there really datacenter demand for these anymore?

In addition to the Nvidia EULA against "datacenter use" they (allegedly) shut down the last dual slot 3090 (with server compatible cooling configuration) because it was eating at higher margin datacenter SKUs[0].

I don't see a lot of datacenters making use of a 3.5U card with challenging power and cooling requirements but I certainly could be wrong.

0 - https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/gigabyte-axe...

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Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by my123 on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:39AM (#33199686)
The NVIDIA datacenter use clause is present in the license agreement for the Windows driver, but not on the Linux one.
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Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by kkielhofner on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:24AM (#33200230)
Do you have a reference?

What’s the point of the infamous “No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.” clause if it only applies to Windows?

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Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by my123 on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:15AM (#33200905)
Yes.

Windows: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/

Linux: https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/520.56.06/l...

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Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by kkielhofner on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:27PM (#33207116)
Wow, thanks!

This is fascinating and now I'm really confused. Who is using CUDA on Windows in any datacenter application?

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Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by smoldesu on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:32PM (#33208482)
I wonder if it's the other way around... maybe this rule was grandfathered in from a time when Microsoft feared companies offering "DirectX as a Service" or whatever. It doesn't really seem like the sort of thing Nvidia would care about, especially considering the licensing of their Unix drivers and considerable enterprise support efforts.
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