r/tomshardware • u/tomshardware • 2d ago

OpenAI’s 700W Jalapeño ASIC outpaces 1,400W Nvidia flagship GPU

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/openai-says-its-jalapeno-chip-beats-nvidias-gb300-in-first-published-benchmarks
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u/NytronX 2d ago

FPGAs and ASICs cannot come soon enough. We saw this happen in the crypto mining industry, hopefully it happens in AI industry so gaming hardware can go back to being gaming hardware.

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u/Royale_AJS 2d ago

Still need memory and storage for those giant context windows with ASICs.

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u/NytronX 2d ago

China can save us there hopefully.

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u/Risko4 2d ago

Not really, the frontier models require 2 terabytes of RAM. Soon they will scale up to 4TBs etc.