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by valine 1547 days ago
Anyone have a sense for how much these will cost? Is this more akin to the Mac Studio that costs 4k or an A100 gpu that costs upward of 30k? Looking for an order of magnitude.
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Considering that the URL is "/data-center/grace-cpu/", assume much more than a Mac Studio.
Compare a 72C Grace against an 80C Ampere Altra which is priced at $4K (without RAM).
The top-end datacenter GPUs have been slowly creeping up from $5k a few generations back to about $15k for the A100's now. So this one will probably continue the trend, probably to $20k or maybe $30k but probably not beyond that.
This is definitely not a consumer-grade device, like a Mac Studio.
Probably on the order of $100k.
That would be a real shame. I really want someone to make a high core count ARM processor in the price range of an AMD threadripper that can work with Nvidia gpus.
Look into Ampere they have 256 core and 160 core dual socket systems for decent prices https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere.html .
Ampere Altra?