{
  "title": "The half NVIDIA sold me",
  "footnote": "Nothing is physically switched off, so read the hexes as a share of the full rate. All 328 cores run, at half speed for this math. Measured values are medians of three runs. Ratings are peak figures from NVIDIA's Ampere GA102 whitepaper v2.1, Tables 3 and 9.",
  "kind": "hive",
  "options": {
    "columns": 41,
    "total": 328,
    "start": 1,
    "autoplay": [
      2
    ],
    "states": [
      {
        "short": "NVIDIA's rating",
        "label": "What NVIDIA rates a GeForce RTX 3090 at",
        "note": "FP32 accumulation, GA102 whitepaper, Table 9",
        "lit": 164,
        "value": "71 TFLOPS"
      },
      {
        "short": "Stock",
        "label": "My 3090 before the unlock",
        "note": "Measured on Strix-B at 350 W",
        "lit": 166,
        "value": "72.0 TFLOPS"
      },
      {
        "short": "Unlocked",
        "label": "The same 3090 after the unlock",
        "note": "Measured on Strix-B at 350 W",
        "lit": 270,
        "value": "117.0 TFLOPS"
      },
      {
        "short": "Unlocked, 390 W",
        "label": "The same 3090 with more power",
        "note": "Measured on Strix-B at 390 W",
        "lit": 287,
        "value": "124.4 TFLOPS"
      }
    ]
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "label": "RTX 3090, NVIDIA's rating",
      "t": 71
    },
    {
      "label": "My 3090, stock (350 W)",
      "t": 71.973
    },
    {
      "label": "My 3090, unlocked (350 W)",
      "t": 117.04
    },
    {
      "label": "My 3090, unlocked (390 W)",
      "t": 124.44
    },
    {
      "label": "RTX 3090, NVIDIA's FP16-accumulate peak",
      "t": 142
    },
    {
      "label": "RTX A6000, NVIDIA's rating (same GA102)",
      "t": 154.8
    }
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "key": "t",
      "label": "BF16 TFLOPS",
      "decimals": 1
    }
  ],
  "stats": [
    {
      "value": "72.0",
      "label": "TFLOPS stock. NVIDIA rates it at 71."
    },
    {
      "value": "117.0",
      "label": "TFLOPS unlocked, same 350 W"
    },
    {
      "value": "+130",
      "label": "TFLOPS across my three benchmarked cards"
    },
    {
      "value": "1.8",
      "label": "extra stock 3090s' worth of BF16 math"
    }
  ],
  "subtitle": "An RTX 3090 has 328 tensor cores. Each hex is one, lit by how much of NVIDIA's 142 TFLOPS full-rate figure the card actually delivers for BF16 math.",
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}