Indeed, it was the reverse until recently but P100 is compute capability 6.0, the latest GTX cards are 6.1 but V100 is already 7. Performance-wise P100 is reasonably close to commodity cards on the Tensorflow benchmarks (especially on 1 or 2 cards). I don't have figures at hand but currently V100 is not too far from them either as far as Deep Learning tasks are concerned. This may change when TF moves to CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7 in the next release.
On 6 January 2018 at 00:43, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:52:19 +0000, you wrote: > >>There has been a conversation going on on the AMBER mailing list for some >>time, related to this and specifically to the Volta card in some way, since >>AMBER performs best on the consumer grade stuff and doesn’t require the >>enterprise class features (I guess the reason for the performance difference >>is that the next gen consumer cards come out first?). > > Actually, the consumer cards (at least for the last generation or so) > have been released last. > > Volta has not yet been released in a consumer form - the cheapest > available so far is the Titan V (direct from Nvidia only) at $3k I > believe. Speculation is that consumer Volta may come out this year, > but there is no pressure on Nvidia given AMD's troubles in the GPU > market. > > The big difference is that of course most of the work is being done on > consumer hardware because that's what the developers and researchers > can afford. Secondarily, the new feature Volta offers is still to > recent to be properly supported (and some software may get no benefit > from it) because affordable hardware isn't yet available to allow > developer access to the new Tensor cores that Volta offers. > >>Anyhow, I spoke to an NVIDIA rep about it at SC17 and he kind of said “we are >>happy you’re buying whatever chip of ours). I said, sure, maybe, but I >>understand you’re putting the screws to the systems vendors so how are we >>supposed to buy them. Didn’t get a real concrete answer. > > I would think if Nvidia isn't careful this could provide an opening > for AMD. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
