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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by holoduke on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:07PM (#42624702)
Can you actually use multiple videocards easily with existing AI model tools?
Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by jbarrow on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:11PM (#42624731)
Yes, though how you do it depends on what you're doing.

I do a lot of training of encoders, multimodal, and vision models, which are typically small enough to fit on a single GPU; multiple GPUs enables data parallelism, where the data is spread to an independent copy of each model.

Occasionally fine-tuning large models and need to use model-parallelism, where the model is split across GPUs. This is also necessary for inference of the really big models, as well.

But most tooling for training/inference of all kinds of models supports using multiple cards pretty easily.

Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by benob on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:11PM (#42624736)
Yes, multi-GPU on the same machine is pretty straightforward. For example ollama uses all GPUs out of the box. If you are into training, the huggingface ecosystem supports it and you can always go the manual route to put tensors on their own GPUs with toolkits like pytorch.
Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by qingcharles on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @01:47PM (#42625822)
Yes. Depends what software you're using. Some will use more than one (e.g. llama.cpp), some commercial software won't bother.
Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by dpeterson on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:58PM (#42636713)
I just made a video on this very thing: https://youtu.be/JtbyA94gffc