alt Hacker NewsBut what if nvidia used those fuses because an A100 had too many fabrication faults so it could only be a cheaper mining card?
(which is the more likely scenario because they can make much more money on enterprise/datacenter products, see DRAM)
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Isn’t this how these things are always done? Same with number of cores in a CPU, the higher core and lower core come from the same fabrication process, it’s just that the lower core CPU had more faulty cores that are disabled.
it appears the opposite is true and that's why it's faster than an A100, which is optimized for yield and allows more defects
They definitely did, but maybe you can get some good results running your own tests and determining if they really ARE bad or not, or they just overly tagged them out.
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