Nvidia's $40K AI GPU fails at gaming, but that’s to be expected

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For whatever reason, someone has decided to use Nvidia’s super expensive AI GPU to play PC games, and the results are predictably dire. While it sounds weird saying that the RTX 4060 could potentially♍ run rings around a $40K graph💧ics card, things are a bit clearer when you look at what the H100 is actually meant to be. Still, it’s fun to playfully roast cutting-edge tech, and new benchmarks naturally help with the dunking. 

It might not be too obvious, but despite being literally called graphics processing units, some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best graphics cards out there aren’t built with producing visuals in mind. As such, it’s more appropriate to call expensive cards like the H100 Hopper an ‘AI-accelerator’ or ‘general purpose’ GPU, as they’re meant to live within advanced data centers rather than your 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:gaming PC

points out that YouTuber has managed to do so anyway. Rather than popping the card onto a PCIe slot and insta🏅lling some drivers, the enthuဣsiast had to add a fan to the card (as it doesn’t have one) and trick it into using another GPUs video output, but the end result is something that functions like a traditional graphics card.

I say traditional, but if the Nvidia H100’s benchmarks are anything to go by, it acts more like an iGPU than the likes of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GeForce RTX 4090. The card manages to “achieve” a 3DMark TimeSpy score of 2,618, which is less than the AMD Radeon 680M. Again, this is to be expected, as while the expensive part boasts 80GB HBM3 memory and 14,592 CUDA cores, it wields fewer raster operating units and lacks game-optimized drivers.&nbs𝐆p;

Running gaming benchmarks using an Nvidia H100 is ridiculously silly, but you could say the experiment is somewhat educational. If you’re well ♛vers🐷ed in the realm of PC hardware, the fact you shouldn’t use a $40K graphics card to play Red Dead Redemption 2 should be obvious. However, the reasons why are perhaps less so, and Geekerwan’s venture ultimately hammers home the technological differences between a data center GPU and your faithful GeForce card whirring away in your rig. 

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