When you are operating at any kind of scale you need the Telsa packaging (airflow, connectors, power) and testing (running many in a system). The consumer desktop cards cause lots of trouble.
Also the consumer cards have artificially small memory sizes (e.g. 11GB max) which painfully constrains DL jobs.
No manufacturer is allowed to build Tesla-like cards. Theoretically AMD could crush the nVidia profit margins by releasing cheap data center boards, but their developer support is rubbish and they want that high margin cash too.
Also the consumer cards have artificially small memory sizes (e.g. 11GB max) which painfully constrains DL jobs.
No manufacturer is allowed to build Tesla-like cards. Theoretically AMD could crush the nVidia profit margins by releasing cheap data center boards, but their developer support is rubbish and they want that high margin cash too.