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Do we have any good data on how many of the GPU burn out given hard usage? Are we talkinga bout loosing 50% of the hardware as it fails? Or far less?
by bwb 3mo ago
Do we have any good data on how many of the GPU burn out given hard usage?
Are we talkinga bout loosing 50% of the hardware as it fails? Or far less?
- digdugdirk 3mo agoIt's an inherently different thing. Fibre is infrastructure. It'll still function decades later. GPUs at this scale are consumables. I've heard 3-5 years lifespan before they fail out. This might be a low estimate, but even if you double it - they're 50% of the cost of datacenters. We're flushing entire countries worth of economic value down an Nvidia shaped toilet.
- bwb 3mo agoAnyone got any good testing data? Surely someone knows rough failure rate from constant usage?
- rwmj 3mo agoIt's not that they fail (which they also do), it's that they become obsolete. They consume more energy to do fewer operations relative to newer nodes. This is the basis behind Moore's law.
- bwb 3mo agoAh gotcha, ya that will be interesting to see, but does seem like a more likely life of 7 to 10 years is possible. I am curious on actual hardware failure rates due to heat etc.
- rightbyte 3mo agoI tried to do a calculation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762428 So 10% failure rate per gpu year. Some might be repairable and there might be a failure rate acceleration as time passes etc. So very approximate numbers.