That GV100 is appearing in a Titan card is extremely notable, and it’s critical to understanding NVIDIA’s positioning and ambitions with the Titan V. NVIDIA’s previous high-end GPU, the Pascal-based GP100, never made it to a Titan card. That role was instead filled by the much more straightforward and consumer-focused GP102 GPU, leading to the resulting Titan Xp. Titan Xp itself was no slouch in compute or graphics, however it left a sizable gap in performance and capabilities between it and the Tesla family of server cards. By putting GV100 into a Titan card, NVIDIA has eliminated this gap. However it also changes the market for the card and its expectations.
The Titan family has already been pushing towards compute for the past few years, and by putting the compute-centric GV100 into the card, NVIDIA has essentially ushered that transition to completion. The Titan V now gets all of the compute capabilities of NVIDIA’s best GPU, but in turn it’s more distant than ever from the graphics world. Which is not to say that it can’t do graphics – as we’ll see in detail in a bit – but this is first and foremost a compute card. In particular it is a means for NVIDIA to seed development for the Volta architecture and its new tensor cores, and to give its user base a cheaper workstation-class alternative for smaller-scale compute projects. The Titan family may have started as a card for prosumers, but the latest Titan V is more professional than any card before.
I can’t imagine they’d be able to enforce this though. How would they even know if someone is in breach of their EULA?
The problem is that the EULA doesn't specify what a datacenter is according to NVIDIA.Datacenter is pretty specific. Nobody is going to consider your apartment a data center. They are targeting customers who reside within data centers selling time on their servers using a consumer grade card to run code.
I'm curious what prompted this move more than the move itself.
And honestly didn't know their consumer cards could run the same code\tools as their professional and HPC level cards. Thought that was blocked at the driver level.
This is why I don't understand why so many on this forum hate AMD so much. Having competition is better for the consumer I only wish there was another supplier to take it to both AMD and Nvidia.
The problem is that the EULA doesn't specify what a datacenter is according to NVIDIA.
Only certain ISVs require Quadro/Tesla cards because they only work with certified drivers. If you're writing your own code then it doesn't matter if it's a GeForce card in most cases.
The problem is that the EULA doesn't specify what a datacenter is according to NVIDIA.
I don't think forum goers hate AMD, I think they hate the hype and hyperbole brought about by AMD fanatics with each new cycle of card releases.
Just like clockwork lol. Opened this thread hoping I'd find this one throwing up an instant, iron-clad defense.So what? GeForce isn't an enterprise compute card. Is anyone bitching actually running Geforce cards in a datacenter?
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Just like clockwork lol. Opened this thread hoping I'd find this one throwing up an instant, iron-clad defense.
So the guy that you and many others bemoaned as a failure at AMD who brought out two generations of bad product is going to make Intel succeed where they have failed twice before? All as a single hire?