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by eru 5 days ago
Why not? Seems like they would be poorly optimised?
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Because llm inference is not the only workload a GPU can do and custom silicon cost $10b a chip.
AI optimised cards is the biggest cashcow for nvidia. They are definitely doing custom silicon. And Google et al have cards that don't even pretend to be able to do graphics.
There is more than one workload in AI. Inference for llms is memory constrained on even a single card. Training for llms is memory constrained on the level of racks. In both cases you hardly ever see more than 40% of advertised flops used.
So the question is: why are they designing AI cards so unbalanced?