NVIDIA Preps Even More Hopper AI GPUs For Chinese Market To Bypass US Restrictions
NVIDIA doesn't seem to be giving up on its huge AI market potential in the Chinese market as the company is reportedly making even more Hopper GPUs that bypass the US restrictions.
According to the latest report by Dylan Patel of Semianalysis, it looks like NVIDIA has plans to launch at least three new AI GPUs for the Chinese market which include the H20 SXM, PCIe L20, and the PCIe L2. All of these chips are based on the Hopper GPU architecture and will feature a maximum theoretical performance of 296 TFLOPs.
The exact specifications of these GPU configurations of these chips aren't known yet but the Hopper H20 SMX features 96 GB memory capacities operating at up to 4.0 Tb/s, 296 TFLOPs Compute power, and using the GH100 die with a performance density of 2.9 TFLOPs/die versus H100's 19.4. The H100 SXM is 6.68x faster than the H20 SXM as per the listed table but those are FP16 Tensor Core FLOPs (with Sparsity) and not the INT8 or FP8 FLOPs. The GPU has a 400W TDP and features 8-Way configurations in an HGX solution. It retains the 900 GB/s NVLINK connection & also offers 7-Way MIG (Multi-Instance GPU) functionality.
The NVIDIA L20 comes with 48 GB of memory and a peak of 239 TFLOPs of compute performance while the L2 is configured with 24 GB of memory and a peak of 193 TFLOPs of compute power. The GPUs come in PCIe form factors making them a viable solution for office-based workstations and servers. These are much more cut-down configurations than what the Chinese customers were getting before in the form of the H800 and A800 but it looks like the NVIDIA software stack for AI and HPC is just too valuable to give up for some of these customers and they will be willing to take the reduced specs in order to get access to these
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