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		Scene_Cast2 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit a... I'd guess that the datacenter "GPUs" lack all the fixed-function graphics hardware (texture samplers, etc) that's still there in modern consumer GPUs.

jsheard 5 days ago [–]

They do still have texture units since sampling 2D and 3D grids is a useful primitive for all sorts of compute, but some other stuff is stripped back. They don't have raytracing or video encoding units for example.

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