Comment on Very large amounts of gaming gpus vs AI gpus
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 2 days agothe H200 has a very impressive bandwith of 4.89 TB/s, but for the same price you can get 37 TB/s spread across 58 RX 9070s, but if this actually works in practice i don’t know.
Your math checks out, but only for some workloads. Other workloads scale out like shit, and then you want all your bandwidth concentrated. At some point you’ll also want to consider power draw:
- One H200 is like 1500W when including support infrastructure like networking, motherboard, CPUs, storage, etc.
- 58 consumer cards will be like 8 servers loaded with GPUs, at like 5kW each, so say 40kW in total.
Now include power and cooling over a few years and do the same calculations.
As for apples and oranges, this is why you can’t look at the marketing numbers, you need to benchmark your workload yourself.