imaginary_num6er@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 10 months agoAn EPYC Miss? Microsoft Azure Instances Pair AMD's MI300X With Intel's Sapphire Rapidswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down11cross-posted to: intel
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkAn EPYC Miss? Microsoft Azure Instances Pair AMD's MI300X With Intel's Sapphire Rapidswww.tomshardware.comimaginary_num6er@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: intel
minus-squareHTwoN@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoSapphire Rapids is better for AI. Intel spent silicon real estate on AI accelerator.
minus-squarefarnoy@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoBut what are the accelerators doing? AMX surely isn’t being used because it contributes nothing compared to 8 massive GPUs? I doubt QAT has a use either, since these GPUs are going to be fed by p2p dma from the 400Gbps NICs they each have.
Sapphire Rapids is better for AI. Intel spent silicon real estate on AI accelerator.
But what are the accelerators doing? AMX surely isn’t being used because it contributes nothing compared to 8 massive GPUs? I doubt QAT has a use either, since these GPUs are going to be fed by p2p dma from the 400Gbps NICs they each have.