Jensen Huang says even free AI chips from his competitors can't beat Nvidia's GPUs

peopleproblems , 3 months ago

Free?

I'll take free GPUs, where can I get some?

DreadPotato , 3 months ago

Right over here...just wait on that couch there, Mr. Jensen will be here shortly with your free GPU.

GeneralVincent , 3 months ago

Hmm this couch looks familiar... anyways, I wonder how many teraflops I'll be getting

Nomecks , 3 months ago

Free*

*With purchase of 3 year suport license

snaggen , 3 months ago

I'm free to choose any laptop I want for work. This means, that for me, the GPU and other processors are free. It turns out that I still avoid Nvidia like the plague. I don't care if it is free, if the drivers are horrible.

Nighed , 3 months ago

And AMD or Intel are better? Everyone complains about the drivers.

snaggen , 3 months ago

For Linux it is a huge difference. AMD and Intel have great open source drivers, while Nvidia have binary drivers with a lot of issues.

PersonalDevKit , 3 months ago

And for AI at home?
Since this is a story about AI DataCenters

I want to get an AMD but the integration of Nvidia GPUs for processing ML/AI stuff is much higher.
So if I want to mess with running AI at home I only have 1 choice.

I hope AMD release something that competes on that front, and can still play games on the weekend, but currently, he is right there is no competition

Fisch , 3 months ago

I run AI stuff just fine on my AMD GPU using HIP. At least LLMs and Stable Diffusion work perfectly fine but that's the only things I've tested.

PersonalDevKit , 3 months ago

All the benchmarks put the equivalent Nvidia cards almost 2x more in Stable Diffusion https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/stable-diffusion-benchmarks

I hope that is an old benchmark and times have changed, but I can't find anything like it that is more recent.

For a bit of my soul I get a lot more ai power.

AI works on AMD but the speed doesn't seem to be anywhere near Nvidia.

pearsaltchocolatebar , 3 months ago

I find this strange, because I had nothing but trouble getting my R9 390 working with any Linux distro, but my RTX 3060 hasn't given me a single issue on like 6 different distros.

GarlicToast , 3 months ago

Are you talking about a laptop or a desktop?
If desktop, using offload or something like that?

pearsaltchocolatebar , 3 months ago

Desktop, both Intel and AMD builds. And no, I just had multiple SSDs that I played with distros on.

GarlicToast , 3 months ago

Nvidia works flawlessly most of the time on desktops. The suckyness of their drivers shows its ugly head mostly on laptops.

And it's bad, crash your computer bad some times.

pearsaltchocolatebar , 3 months ago

I guess I've been lucky with my laptop, although it is fairly old at this point.

GarlicToast , 3 months ago

Three laptops ago it mostly worked with FOSS solutions around the driver.
Nvidia mostly killed them, and intreduced their own unstable solution.
As far as I care, if they won't fix it before my hardware dies, the next laptop will have a GPU by another manufacture.

just_another_person , 3 months ago

You should try working with their CUDA tool chains. Good. Lord.

stealth_cookies , 3 months ago

I still won't consider an AMD GPU because all 3 I've had throughout my life have had horrible driver experiences. Even the FirePro I had at work at one point required a special driver build that AMD eventually gave me to work even half decent. Never had any major issues with NVidia drivers.

Adanisi , 3 months ago

I've had the opposite experience here on GNU/Linux. The AMD drivers are phenomenal.

bjoern_tantau , 3 months ago

If he says so it must be true.

simple , 3 months ago

"CEO of successful company: My company is the greatest"

filister , 3 months ago

Successful or monopolistic?

Zorque , 3 months ago

To the owners of the companies it means the same thing.

pearsaltchocolatebar , 3 months ago

Successful. It's not monopolistic to have a superior product. Nvidia has competition, but if they're the only one making a good AI GPU then other companies need to step up their game.

filister , 3 months ago

https://archive.is/QkWna might disagree with you

pearsaltchocolatebar , 3 months ago

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0nekoneko7 OP , 3 months ago

Intel and AMD chasing Nvidia AI GPUs.

Jensen Huang begins his response by unpacking his tiny violin. "We have more competition than anyone on the planet," claimed the CEO. He told Shoven that even Nvidia's customers are its competitors, in some cases. Also, Huang pointed out that Nvidia actively helps customers who are designing alternative AI processors and goes as far as revealing to them what upcoming Nvidia chips are on the roadmap.