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A comment on Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets.

Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by jerjerjer on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:10AM (#37571030)
Very strange metric considering actual GPU is probably below 1% of the shipped weight.
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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by green-salt on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:39AM (#37571510)
I'm glad they're measuring by weight instead of volume for more accuracy
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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by a1o on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:12PM (#37573047)
If someone can come up with the average density of a video card we can convert to volume!
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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by mensetmanusman on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:32PM (#37573314)
Probably silicon is a good enough approximation

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=density+of+silicon

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by solardev on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:08PM (#37572981)
Those heat sinks though...
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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by jerjerjer on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:50AM (#37583044)
I count only the silicon die.
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