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“Paired together, you’d have nearly a whole kilowatt of power being sucked up by just the processor and graphics card. Everything else will absolutely push this system over the 1000W line.”
TechRadar computing editor John Loeffler, on next-gen Nvidia and AMD circuits hogging energy. “Value and efficiency seem to have been completely thrown by the wayside, and that isn’t just a mistake, it’s increasingly unethical.”
“I for one enjoy watching Mercedes Benz simulate the Autobahn. It’s the Kraftwerk in me.”
Peter Kirn, musician and creative technologist, on NVIDIA’s GTC 2021 keynote, in which the GPU giant demonstrated how, for example, car manufacturers are training AIs for future robotic factories in the company’s simulation platform Omniverse. On his blog CDM, Kirn explains why these advanced enterprise applications are relevant for artists, too
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