Comment by steinvakt2

Comment by steinvakt2 11 hours ago

3 replies

Isn't 5090 FE (roughly 2500 USD in my country) pretty good FLOP value? 32 GB VRAM (and flash attention pushes it even faster compared to apple/mps relatively cheap "vram")

neilmovva 10 hours ago

Not really:

5090: 210 TF / $2k == 105 TF/$k

B200: 2250 TF / $40k == 56 TF/$k

Getting only 2x the FLOPs per dollar probably isn't worth the hassle of having to rack 10x as many GPUs, while having no NVLink.

  • steinvakt2 5 hours ago

    Sure, but when spending 20x more, getting almost twice the compute per buck seems expected

  • lossolo 9 hours ago

    One of the reasons they removed NVLink from consumer cards (they supported it before). There’s also an issue with power consumption (1xB200 vs 10x5090)