Although Nvidia's flagship CPU, GPU, is intended for data centers and AI, GPTshop.ai sells the GH200 as part of an AI workstation in a desktop compute

Nvidia's first CPU+GPU chips come to AI workstation desktop PCs — Grace Hopper Superchip systems start at $41,500

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2024-02-12 14:00:05

Although Nvidia's flagship CPU, GPU, is intended for data centers and AI, GPTshop.ai sells the GH200 as part of an AI workstation in a desktop computer form factor. Anyone can now access Nvidia's Grace CPU and Hopper GPU, provided they have at least $41,500 to afford the base model of the GH200 system.

A GH200-powered desktop workstation looks completely overkill on paper. The Grace CPU half of GH200 has 72 cores and comes with 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, which isn't quite as much as the 1TB you can install on Threadripper 7000, but it's still a respectable amount. The show's real star is the Hopper-based H200 chip, which measures a massive 814mm2 and has 16,896 CUDA cores. Interestingly, GPTshop.ai offers both the HBM3 version of GH200 and the newer HBM3e version, including more VRAM.

The system also features Noctua fans and cooling. It has optional add-ons like Nvidia's Bluefield-3 and ConnectX-7 networking cards, 8TB SSDs, 30TB HDDs, mouse and keyboard, and even an RTX 4060, presumably for graphics output or access to ray tracing, which is one of the few features that Hopper doesn't support. Your only option for OS is an Ubuntu server; Windows isn't a great operating system for Arm CPUs, let alone an Arm data center CPU.

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