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Comment Re:overpriced (Score 1) 62

Purchasing it at this price and configuration would only be justified for sparse matrix math workloads enabled by the Ampere architecture. AI workloads would be better off with Google's TPU v3 or possibly a GA100 chip. The GDDR6X memory increase is deceiving in capacity. Micron has plans for 16Gbit chips, but as is the memory is the same density as on NVIDIA’s RTX 20 series cards, and their GTX 1000 series cards. RTX 3090 gets 24GB of VRAM, but only by using 12 pairs of chips in clamshell mode on a 384-bit memory bus, making for more than twice as many memory chips as on RTX 2080 Ti.

Comment Government Spending (Score 1) 112

Another failure of the European Union not focusing on their strengths - ITER (France) vs. Wendelstein 7-X (Germany) and now reusable rockets vs. SABRE. Europe is not too big for a single government, but they do need to get past S.R. Hadden's first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

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