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Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Plenty of people using 4090s tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, even though Nvidia removed NVLink it’s still a popular card for deep learning coz it’s relatively cheap for small labs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

NVLink died because PCIE Gen5 can handle incorrect now, no external hardware needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

PCIe 5.0 cannot do what NVLink does, and NVLink isn’t dead at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

NVLink is no longer supported on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture that powers Nvidia's flagship RTX 4090 graphics. Replacing NVLink is the PCIe Gen 5 standard. Nvidia will use the freed up space from the removal of NVLink to cram in more AI processing capabilities.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/computers-desktops/nvidia-kills-off-nvlink-on-rtx-4090#:~:text=NVLink%20is%20no%20longer%20supported,in%20more%20AI%20processing%20capabilities.

The RTX A6000 ADA also drops nvlink. No idea why the downvotes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hobbyists, sure. Startups, maybe (from what I've seen, they're far more likely to rent a server or something). Mainstream corporations, definitely not.