ChatGPT Will Command More Than 30,000 Nvidia GPUs: Report

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be one of Nvidia's biggest income generators, according to the latest TrendForce projection. The research firm estimates that OpenAI's ChatGPT will eventually need over 30,000 Nvidia graphics cards. Thankfully, gamers have nothing to be concerned about, as ChatGPT won't touch the best graphics cards for gaming but rather tap into Nvidia's compute accelerators, such as the A100.

Nvidia has always had a knack for sniffing out gold rushes. The chipmaker was at the forefront of the cryptocurrency boom, pulling in record-breaking revenues from miners. Nvidia once again finds itself on the front lines for what appears to be the next best thing: AI. And the AI boom is already HERE, as exemplified by all the AI-powered text and image creators that have emerged throughout the last several months.

Nvidia also sells the A100 as part of the DGX A100 system, which has eight accelerators and sells for a whopping $199,000. Given the scale of OpenAI's operation, the company will likely purchase the A100 individually and stack them into clusters. The DGX A100, on the other hand, is an attractive option for smaller businesses that want to dip their toes in AI.

Zhiye Liu
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Zhiye Liu is a news editor and memory reviewer at Tom’s Hardware. Although he loves everything that’s hardware, he has a soft spot for CPUs, GPUs, and RAM.

  • thisisaname
    ChatGPT the new mining boom?
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  • PlaneInTheSky
    No it won't. ChatGPT and these "AI responses" were just a pointless fad.

    It's exactly like Cortana. Lots of hype from Microsoft, for something that was really a gimmick that no one uses.

    You can't rely on these "AI" answers because the answers are unreliable and often contain serious mistakes that even a child wouldn't make. The answer could either be from a reliable site or some idiot who wrote it on a forum somewhere, there's no way to know where the "AI" bot found the stuff online to compose the answer.

    You waste way more time checking if the answer ChatGPT gave you is correct than looking it up yourself. I don't know anyone who still uses ChatGPT.
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  • salgado18
    PlaneInTheSky said:
    No it won't. ChatGPT and these "AI responses" were just a pointless fad.

    It's exactly like Cortana. Lots of hype from Microsoft, for something that was really a gimmick that no one uses.

    You can't rely on these "AI" answers because the answers are unreliable and often contain serious mistakes that even a child wouldn't make. The answer could either be from a reliable site or some idiot who wrote it on a forum somewhere, there's no way to know where the "AI" bot found the stuff online to compose the answer.

    You waste way more time checking if the answer ChatGPT gave you is correct than looking it up yourself. I don't know anyone who still uses ChatGPT.
    I started using it, to give me clues about problems too difficult to search for. I had a problem involving saved queries using PostgreSQL and Power BI, but while I do know some of the SQL, I don't know Power BI. ChatGPT told me where those queries could be saved, I validated the Postgres part and a coleague validated the Power BI. It would take a lot of time to discover what the chat gave me in seconds.

    The problem is not always on the answer, but on the question. Ask it something with many connected parts, and it may help join that knowledge, and you can keep going from there.
    Reply
  • 9cento
    Imagine overclocking 30000 gpus lmao
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  • SunMaster
    I think AI is cool, but has a long way to go. The resources required is astonishing, to say the least. Both the cost of the hardware but also the operating cost.
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  • Matt_ogu812
    PlaneInTheSky said:
    No it won't. ChatGPT and these "AI responses" were just a pointless fad.

    It's exactly like Cortana. Lots of hype from Microsoft, for something that was really a gimmick that no one uses.

    You can't rely on these "AI" answers because the answers are unreliable and often contain serious mistakes that even a child wouldn't make. The answer could either be from a reliable site or some idiot who wrote it on a forum somewhere, there's no way to know where the "AI" bot found the stuff online to compose the answer.

    You waste way more time checking if the answer ChatGPT gave you is correct than looking it up yourself. I don't know anyone who still uses ChatGPT.

    Well there goes my dream of getting a PhD in Astro Physics using ChatGPT.
    I'll be damned if I'm going to spend thousands of dollars and 10 years of my life at a Ivy League University.
    I'll just wait till 'Version 2' comes out ......haha.
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  • Matt_ogu812
    SunMaster said:
    I think AI is cool, but has a long way to go. The resources required is astonishing, to say the least. Both the cost of the hardware but also the operating cost.

    'Relax.......You have a MC card'.

    That's what the commercial use to say.
    If you don't have a MC card some university will get a grant or a govt. entity will buy it and bill the tax payers.
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  • randyh121
    PlaneInTheSky said:
    No it won't. ChatGPT and these "AI responses" were just a pointless fad.

    It's exactly like Cortana. Lots of hype from Microsoft, for something that was really a gimmick that no one uses.

    You can't rely on these "AI" answers because the answers are unreliable and often contain serious mistakes that even a child wouldn't make. The answer could either be from a reliable site or some idiot who wrote it on a forum somewhere, there's no way to know where the "AI" bot found the stuff online to compose the answer.

    You waste way more time checking if the answer ChatGPT gave you is correct than looking it up yourself. I don't know anyone who still uses ChatGPT.
    You are so very wrong
    All my coders in the company I manage use chatgpt to write 95% of the code they need
    Edit a few lines to match their specific needs and boom, done. Save time and money.
    Chapgpt is not used for looking stuff up online. That is not why it was made
    Its made for composing code, essays, articles, and summaries of stuff
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  • PlaneInTheSky
    randyh121 said:
    All my coders in the company I manage use chatgpt to write 95% of the code they need

    And which company is that?
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  • randyh121
    PlaneInTheSky said:
    And which company is that?
    Not going to say as I run my business anonymously.

    My point is that chapgpt has revolutionized the codeing world to make it so we do not have to hire coders to do menial tasks anymore, chapgpt can do the majority of software while we just edit what we need and dont need.
    It's honestly refreshing to see how much money we've made now with just a fraction of the labor involved
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