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What is the cost of an equivalent setup using A100s?

I have no idea what I am doing but here goes!

By [1] we have 156 FP16 TFLOPS, taking their non "*" (* = with sparsity) value. So you need 5 So $40,000? pls the other stuff, and someone to make a profit putting it together say $50,000?

So this setup is 3 times cheaper for the same.

If I am allowed to use the sparsity value it is 1.5 times cheaper.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...




A100s have a much worse performance per dollar than 3090s/4090s (which are the direct competitors to the 7900x)


Fwiw, I can't think of a single popular neural net architecture that takes advantage of sparsity.




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