But they also have PCI-e 4 with CPU bypass and onboard decompression for streaming in data from SSD.
Probably a better trade-off for gaming and worse for ML training.
Probably a better trade-off for gaming and worse for ML training.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-io-gpu-acceler...
It can't both bypass the CPU and have decompression unless it is decompression on the GPU. I'm not sure it is dedicated decompression hardware, or if it is using the normal GPU compute.
> Specifically, NVIDIA RTX IO brings GPU-based lossless decompression, allowing reads through DirectStorage to remain compressed while being delivered to the GPU for decompression.
Still not sure if it'll use fixed-function decompression units on the GPU or if it's just compute shaders, but it's decompressing on the GPU.