Stefan Mileschin

When first launched last year, the original Tesla V100 shipped with 16GB of HBM2 memory. Now just a little less than a year into its lifetime, NVIDIA is announcing that their workhorse server accelerator is getting a memory capacity bump to 32GB, effectively immediately.

For the last couple of years now, NVIDIA has been relying on 4GB (4-Hi) HBM2 memory stacks for their Tesla P100 and Tesla V100 products, as this was the first HBM2 memory to be ready in reasonable commercial volumes. Now that Samsung and SK Hynix have a better grip on HBM2 manufacturing, 8GB (8Hi) HBM2 stacks are far more readily available and reliable. As a result, the conditions are right for NVIDIA to finally give their Tesla cards a long-awaited memory upgrade.

This upgrade will be across the entire Tesla V100 family – all SKUs for SMX and PCIe cards are getting their memory doubled. The Tesla V100’s specifications otherwise remain identical, with the same GPU and memory clocks along with the same TDPs. We’re also told that the mechanical specifications are identical as well, which would mean that the 8-Hi stacks won’t cause any cooling problems due to changes in memory stack height.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12576...models-to-32gb