Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Do most GPUs made for AI even have a graphical output buffer and a video output any more?


They've been aggressively removing or reducing hardware that's vestigial from the perspective of AI. NVIDIA's Hopper has no display outputs, no raytracing hardware, no video encoders, and only one of the eight GPCs has raster graphics functionality; the rest are compute-only. With their newer Blackwell parts, going from B200 to B300 they cut out almost all FP64 and INT8 capabilities so they could squeeze in more FP4 throughput.


Yes still but perhaps not needed in next iteration when we just approximate the graphics pipeline with matrix multiplications


You can game on H100 GPUs, it is terrible though. Someone has tested it and it is on the level of a Radeon 680M, that is the performance of a typical business laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nb_DZAH-TM


I know that the NVIDIA H100 chips don't, other than those however I'm not too sure, I'd assume that that'd be the case though, no point adding extra tech you aren't gonna be using in a big datacenter.




Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: