Meta Will Acquire 350,000 H100 GPUs Worth More Than 10 Billion US Dollars

[Solaris17]

I doubt that is going to be a comfortable industry for long, regulations price control other political mumbo jumbo

and I am sure meta is aware of it.

 

[kondamin]

and I am sure meta is aware of it.

Is meta getting in to the energy business?im Imagining a meta SMR line

 

[Denver]

and I am sure meta is aware of it.

Mark is the guy who wasted tons of money on "metaverse", of course, he knows.

 

[Jism]

I'm honestly extremely surprised that people are truly willing to pay so much money for cards that don't even seem that impressive to me.

Take VRAM for example. Nvidia went from 64 MB in 2000 to 512 MB in 2005 to 3 GB in 2010 (48x in 10 years). Titan Pascal in 2016 had 12 GB for $1200 and RTX 4080 in 2023 had 16 GB for also $1200. This is only 33.3% more in 7 years. H100 are ridiculously expensive.

We are already seeing video games progressing at a slower and slower pace thanks to slower and slower pace of hardware change as well as the horrible and nonsensical move to mobile gaming.

Titan Maxwell in 2015 also had 12 GB for $1200 by they way....

NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB Specs

NVIDIA GH100, 1755 MHz, 14592 Cores, 456 TMUs, 24 ROPs, 81920 MB HBM2e, 1593 MHz, 5120 bit

www.techpowerup.com

The professional cards have over 80GB of VRAM. Well, not really VRAM, it's just there to store stuff into.

AMD provides you better bang for the buck anyways. Ive bin using 10 years intel based servers and swapped a few out with one big Epyc. It's blazing fast.