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by chessgecko 805 days ago
Also its at 90 watts vs 900 watts for gaudi 3, the flops/mem bw per watt is much more comparable.
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With high end chips like that it's often possible to get dramatically better efficiency by running it at less than peak power consumption, like 90% performance at 50% power or something like that. It's hard to compare the numbers in a fair way.
It would be interesting if this could be made into a reasonably priced (lmao) card for home inference if they intend to mass produce it.

Can't imagine any other reason other than cost as to why they went with LPDDR5, LPDDR5X has more bandwidth and GDDR6 has even more.

they didn't use GDDR cause they wanted the memory capacity which is really important for recommendation models. But I totally agree that this is a sort of perfect cost/perf per watt point for a home setup. I really hope they do it, if not for this one at least for v3.