Stefan Mileschin

Back in March at their annual GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA announced the long-anticipated 32GB version of their flagship Tesla V100 accelerator. By using newer 8-Hi HBM2 memory stacks, NVIDIA was able to double the accelerator’s previous 16GB of VRAM to a class-leading 32GB. Meanwhile, at the time company representatives told us that the launch of the 32GB model would be a wholesale replacement of the 16GB model, with the smaller version to be phased out and all future cards to go out as the 32GB model.

However, this week NVIDIA has reached out to inform us that this will not the case, and that the 16GB model is being continued after all.

In a somewhat odd exchange, the official line from the company is that the previous statement – made in the heat of a pre-briefing Q&A session – was in error, and that the 16GB model was never being discontinued. Instead, NVIDIA’s plan has always been to sell the two models side-by-side. Unfortunately, the company hasn’t been able to make it clear why that information wasn’t presented at the show instead; though what I do know is that this wasn’t caught until customers recently started asking questions.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12809...-in-production