[–] ValdikSS 26d ago ↗ NVIDIA CMP170HX is a binned A100 chip card from 2021, with PCIe gen1 4x connection.With 64GB HBM2e RAM physically, it's locked down to 8GB with the fuse.2 months ago, a paper describing security bypass w/ code execution appeared, and a driver patch released a month ago.You could get these "3090 64GB" for $250 or so only. Now they are $700+.What's baffling is that hardly any major English tech publisher wrote about this hack of a century!All the info in Russian: https://habr.com/ru/news/1060032/Recent LLM tests @ Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vlwjr8/i_teste...It was initially assumed that the RAM is also binned and the rest of it is bad in one way or another (doesn't work on expected frequencies, flip bits, etc). But we haven't seen bad RAM so far. The tests are all OK.
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2 months ago, a paper describing security bypass w/ code execution appeared, and a driver patch released a month ago.
You could get these "3090 64GB" for $250 or so only. Now they are $700+.
What's baffling is that hardly any major English tech publisher wrote about this hack of a century!
All the info in Russian: https://habr.com/ru/news/1060032/
Recent LLM tests @ Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vlwjr8/i_teste...
It was initially assumed that the RAM is also binned and the rest of it is bad in one way or another (doesn't work on expected frequencies, flip bits, etc). But we haven't seen bad RAM so far. The tests are all OK.