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Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore's Law is dead and buried (www.theregister.com)
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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

We saw this with Blackwell Ultra. Ian Buck, VP of Accelerated Computing business unit at Nvidia, told us in an interview they actually nerfed the chip's double precision (FP64) tensor core performance in exchange for 50% more 4-bit FLOPS.

Whether this is a sign that FP64 is on its way out at Nvidia remains to be seen, but if you really care about double-precision grunt, AMD's GPUs and APUs probably should be at the top of your list anyway.

So focused on LLMs that they're hindering performance of general-purpose compute, going to be real great when people realise LLMs don't really do anything and are left with piles of useless hardware.