Nvidia announced ARM based CPU: Grace CPU

[sunny5]

NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU: Up 2x Faster than AMD Epyc and Intel Xeon Parts with Better Power Efficiency | Hardware Times

NVIDIA has announced the sampling of its Grace CPU, promising twice as much compute throughput as its Intel/AMD rivals at notably lower power consumption. Aimed at HPC, Big Data, and inferencing workloads, these Arm designs will go up against the latest Epyc and Xeon data center processors. The...

www.hardwaretimes.com

Grace CPU is officially announced and maybe this is what Mac Pro should go for:

- It still uses LPDDR5x chips and yet it has ECC feature
- A lot of VRAM just like Apple Silicon's Unified memory
- Nvidia's modular design just like A100
- Direct connection between CPU and GPU
- Not only 2 CPU but also 1GPU + 1CPU form
- 500W only with 2 chips
- Up to 960 GB of memory per CPU plate. Or 4TB with DDR5
- NVLINK to connect other CPU/GPU

 

[Xiao_Xi]

I thought the SoC for the Mac Pro would be a giant APU like AMD has.

CES 2023: AMD Instinct MI300 Data Center APU Silicon In Hand - 146B Transistors, Shipping H2’23

www.anandtech.com

 

[sunny5]

I thought the SoC for the Mac Pro would be a giant APU like AMD has.

CES 2023: AMD Instinct MI300 Data Center APU Silicon In Hand - 146B Transistors, Shipping H2’23

www.anandtech.com

At least both Nvidia and AMD proves that Mac Pro can be a large single SoC.

 

[Scarrus]

500W but only 2x the performance? I would have expected a lot more to be honest.

 

[leman]

Grace CPU is officially announced and maybe this is what Mac Pro should go for

You think there is any market for a Mac Pro costing well over $100K? These are supercomputer chips, and they come with a corresponding price point.

 

[Xiao_Xi]

500W but only 2x the performance?

Why would you expect more? Isn't it more powerful than Altra and AWS CPUs?

 

[Scarrus]

The article is citing the CPU being 2x the performance compared to x86 equivalents, AMD and Intel though the AMD CPUs are very old by now.

Compare that to the Desktop space where you have an M2 vs Intel counterpart. You have more than 2x performance(per watt).