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When is NVLink worth it?
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A technical analysis of NVLink performance on dual RTX 3090 setups reveals that while it significantly boosts FSDP training speeds, it has negligible impact on most inference tasks. The author concludes that the high cost of NVLink bridges may not be justified for many AI workloads.
Nvidia doesn’t support NVLink on consumer GPUs anymore. The last one that had it available was the RTX 3090.
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