VR2-0762

① SA Source

Context Before

Source: SemiAnalysis AI TCO Model

The MI4XX currently has a performance per TCO advantage based on marketed dense FLOPS over VR. VR has a higher TCO per GPU compared to MI4XX, yet VR marketed PFLOPs are lower vs MI4XX resulting in a TCO per PFLOP disadvantage for the VR vs MI4XX.

Evidence

NVIDIA is offering sparsity for FP4, marketing 50 PFLOPS of FP4

Context After

As always, one caveat is that this comparison is done based on a marketed dense PFLOP basis. Effective dense PFLOP (i.e. the real world chip throughput) can differ based on Model Flops Utilization % (MFU), and in general we have seen NVIDIA chip operate at a higher MFU % vs AMD chips, suggesting that performance per TCO based on effective dense PFLOPs could be better for NVIDIA systems vs AMD – however, MFU is dependent on actual workloads with no one-size-fits-all MFU % that is consistently applicable to either systems.

Indeed, real world use of FP4 Sparsity will probably not reach 50 PFLOPS but it will probably deliver better effective FLOPs than FP4 Dense, but we have yet to evaluate what that real-world performance could be. Running VR NVL72 on 1800W would probably mean lower FP4 Sparse FLOPs than on 2300W.

② Atomic Claim

NVIDIAFP4 提供 sparsity,並行銷 50 PFLOPS FP4

  • Epistemic Mode: ASSERTED
  • Mapping Status: PARTIAL

③ Semantic Frame

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④ Canonical Entity Mapping

RoleSurface LabelCanonical Target
subjectNVIDIANVDA
participantFP4FP4
participantsparsitySparsity

⑤ Human Review

請在 Properties 逐項確認:

  • 原文 → Atomic Claim 是否忠實
  • Atomic Claim → Semantic Frame 是否忠實
  • Canonical Entity mapping 是否正確
  • Epistemic mode 是否保留原文語氣
  • 最後選擇 review_action

Review state

Markdown 內文不是正式 approval。只有 Apply bridge 寫入的 Decision Ledger event 才是正式決策。