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		programmer_dude on April 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI This may not contradict what I said. Do you know for a fact these things are implemented using dedicated hardware? Edit: I do not see a rasterizer anywhere in the block diagram (pg 14): https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-genomics-ep/ampere-archit... Look at Turing's block diagram here (pg 20): https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vis... You can clearly see that the "Raster Engine" and "PolyMorph Engine" are missing from GA100 (but can be seen in TU100 for example). To learn about these Graphics Engines see: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2918/2

eiz on April 11, 2023 [–]

Fair enough. In the GH100 architecture doc https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-tensor-core/gtc22-whitepa... (page 18) they do mention retaining 2 graphics-capable TPCs but it's clearly not the focus.

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