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by crest 542 days ago
The Radeon VII is special compared to most older (and current) affordable GPUs in that it used HBM giving it memory bandwidth comparable to modern cards ~1TB/s and has reasonable FP64 (1:4) throughput instead of (1:64). So this card can still be pretty interesting for running memory bandwidth intensive FP64 workloads. Anything affordable afterward by either AMD or Nvidia crippled realistic FP64 throughput to below what a AVX-512 many-core CPU can do.
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If we speak about FP64, are your loads more like fluid dynamics than ML training?