Nvidia sold many of their data center GPUs as full server racks. The GPUs aren’t in a form factor to use with a traditional PC and simply cannot slot into a PCIe slot because they don’t have that kind of interface. Look up the DGX B200, which is shipped in a form factor intended for rack mounting and has 8 GPUs alongside two CPUs and everything else needed to run it as a server. These GPUs don’t support video output. It’s not that they just don’t have an output port. They don’t even have the software for it because these GPUs are not capable of rendering graphics (which makes you wonder why they are even called “GPU” anymore). They cannot be plugged into a PCIe slot because there is no interface for it.
iloveDigit@piefed.social 3 days ago
I try not to call them GPUs, though it’s hard to avoid.
But I didn’t know they’re not even capable of rendering graphics at a deeper level than just not having a video output.
It sounds like you definitely know some stuff I don’t, but wouldn’t it be smart for these companies to bid a bit more if they could, to make these builds with more resellable parts instead of using these crazy server rack combo platters?
I still think it’s an economy controlled top down by the authorities that makes this “profitable,” but when you boil it down it’s just them making special stuff for themselves they don’t want to share with us
TehPers@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Their customers don’t care about if they are resellable. They just want GPUs.
We aren’t their customers, and I mean this in the most literal sense possible. You can’t buy these. They only sell them to big companies.
Yes, it’s shit.