alt Hacker NewsAre current datacenter deployments structured in such a way that the memory can later be moved to newer GPU dies? Or is it all packaged together as on consumer graphics cards?
I assumed the latter and therefore that the memory is depreciating along with the GPU cores it's soldered onto PCBs with.
... or is it a different argument being made, perhaps that depreciation for GPUs has slowed because rising demand will keep them in service longer?
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fragmede • last Tuesday at 6:56 AM
Removing RAM chips off old cards is uneconomical, until it isn't. With things going the way they are, if you've got a card with soldered on RAM that could be transplanted to a newer card, I think you'll start seeing that happening.
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The argument is that all GPUs are currently appreciating (!!)
Google is still running 10 year old Tesla T4s at full capacity.
This is way beyond the expected lifetime.