A100's are definitely still the best, but IBM's offering isn't a joke. Depending on what you're trying to do, it might be a good way to go.

We'd probably need to see pricing for IBMs offering, because it's possible it'll be eye watering-ly high compared to buying even A100's.

TBH, I don't really think they compete in anything like similar markets.

You buy a DGX A100, or a cluster of them, for training and running large deep learning models (or for doing "traditional" HPC).

IBM's solution is more a small inference engine that is part of the CPU, so you don't need to move you data off-chip when doing a little bit of inferencing as part of some other workflow. I don't work with mainframes so I could be talking out of my behind, but maybe something like DL-assisted fraud detection as part of processing bank transactions?

> TBH, I don't really think they compete in anything like similar markets.

Yes.