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PC graphics cards to get more expensive again "thanks" to AI boom (archive.is)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I'm surprised we haven't seen TPU cards (think Coral AI but at a larger scale) being made and sold for this purpose, especially if they're faster and more energy efficient at AI-oriented tasks than GPUs.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Well there is the asus AI Accelerator card but that's just 8 coral TPUs. I think the real reason why we don't see large TPUs is because nvidia cards has had tensor cores built into the architect since Volta and with a GPU you don't have to worry about system memory speed since you have 80Gb of HBM.

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