Although the USA has banned the sale of the most powerful Nvidia and AMD graphics cards in China, the manufacturers want to solve this with, for example, trimmed versions of cards on the edge of the limits (GeForce RTX 4090 D). However, the truth is that the Chinese companies themselves are also trying, and one of the other attempts is the computing card Moore Threads MTT S4000. The cards of this manufacturer are known for their relatively decent rough performance, but completely unfulfilled in games. How much better it will be when deployed for AI training remains to be seen. We know, for example, that this card has the 3rd generation MUSA architecture, but with an unspecified number of cores.
We find the huge 48GB GDDR6 VRAM memory, it runs with not exactly the fastest 16Gbps chips, which ensures a still decent throughput of 768 GB/s (this is a little more than the throughput of the RTX 4080, but it does not reach the RTX 4090). The card is designed for a PCIe Gen 5 slot. It has 4 graphics outputs and can handle the processing of 96 Full HD streams at once.
As for the processing power, it should reach 25 TFLOPS in FP32, which is roughly somewhere between the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 4070. So it can be seen that it will definitely not be a replacement for the banned GeForce RTX 4090 and more powerful computing cards. The manufacturer further talks about the performance of 50 TFLOPS in TF32, 100 TFLOPS in FP16/BF16 and finally we come to the typical format for AI deployment, INT8, where it promises performance of 200 TOPS. Again, for context, it would be good to recall how, for example, Nvidia cards are doing. Here, the GeForce RTX 4090 offers 661 TOPS (assuming the same metric). It is also interesting that the card has two-slot cooling and is powered via a 12VHPWR connector. The advantage of the Chinese solution should be compatibility with the Nvidia CUDA interface. Rather, they should allow very easy migration from CUDA to MUSA.
2023-12-19 14:04:42
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