Same. I'm keen to actually subscriber to ultimate. It's $20 in the US so I doubt the ultimate tier in SA will be more than R300-R350.
Well, my rough guess on how this all works, using Azure Databricks for comparison.
For those who don't know Databricks ( with whomeever ) is a big data processing platform that you "rent" computational power in hour type increments but can scale very large clusters to process big jobs. One of my jobs for example uses between 8 to 16 "workers" of which each is a xeon 8 core with about 8Gb which it streams together and processes my data the way I like.
My point is, there is a computation tier that is GPU based which I assume is a similar foundation to what the Geforce Now process would use, makes sense. Some rough ideas of what the "bare metal" consists of. These are for the larger cloud datacenters but I assume Rain and Hetzner(?) would be buying similar kit and licensing with Geforce Now. Keen to hear what kit they use
@Jan
GPU
Specialized virtual machines targeted for heavy graphic rendering and video editing available with single or multiple GPUs.
NC-series
N-series virtual machines are ideal for compute and graphics-intensive workloads, helping customers to fuel innovation through scenarios like high-end remote visualization, deep learning, and predictive analytics. NC-series virtual machines feature the NVIDIA Tesla accelerated platform and these virtual machines do not support the NVIDIA RTX Enterprise technology for graphics and visualization applications. In addition, N-series offers a NC24r configuration that provides a low latency, high-throughput network interface optimized for tightly coupled parallel computing workloads.
| Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary
storage | GPU | Pay as you go | 1 year savings plan | 3 year savings plan | Spot | Add to
estimate |
|---|
| NC6 | 6 | 56 GiB | 340 GiB | 1X K80 | $851.1800/month | $601.3594/month
~29% savings | $443.5480/month
~47% savings | $89.4593/month
~89% savings | |
| NC12 | 12 | 112 GiB | 680 GiB | 2X K80 | $1,703.0900/month | $1,203.2298/month
~29% savings | $887.4829/month
~47% savings | $178.9945/month
~89% savings | |
| NC24r | 24 | 224 GiB | 1,440 GiB | 4X K80 | $3,746.3600/month | $2,646.8048/month
~29% savings | $1,952.2317/month
~47% savings | $393.7423/month
~89% savings | |
| NC24 | 24 | 224 GiB | 1,440 GiB | 4X K80 | $3,406.1800/month | $2,406.4669/month
~29% savings | $1,774.9585/month
~47% savings | $357.9898/month
~89% savings | |
Reserved Virtual Machine Instances are currently not available for the NC-series.
The Azure NC-series Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on 31 August 2023. Refer to our
migration guide for help on next steps.
NCsv2-series
NCsv2 series virtual machines is a new addition to the GPU product family offering the next generation of our popular NC-series machines, powered by NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs. Customers can take advantage of these updated GPUs for traditional HPC workloads that will benefit from a performance boost, powering scenarios like reservoir modeling, DNA sequencing, protein analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, and others. These new GPUs can provide more than 2 times the computational performance of the current NC-series. And like our NC series, we offer a configuration with InfiniBand networking for workloads that require fast interconnect, like Oil and Gas, Automotive, and Genomics to also accelerate scaleout capability as well as improved single instance performance. In addition, N-series offers an NC24r configuration that provides a low latency, high-throughput network interface optimized for tightly coupled parallel computing workloads.
| Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary
storage | GPU | Pay as you go | 1 year savings plan | 3 year savings plan | Spot | Add to
estimate |
|---|
| NC6s v2 | 6 | 112 GiB | 736 GiB | 1X P100 | $1,957.8600/month | $1,629.7250/month
~16% savings | $1,207.8069/month
~38% savings | $195.7860/month
~90% savings | |
| NC12s v2 | 12 | 224 GiB | 1,474 GiB | 2X P100 | $3,915.7200/month | $3,259.4427/month
~16% savings | $2,415.6065/month
~38% savings | $391.5720/month
~90% savings | |
| NC24rs v2 | 24 | 448 GiB | 2,948 GiB | 4X P100 | $8,616.9200/month | $7,172.7245/month
~16% savings | $5,315.7797/month
~38% savings | $861.6920/month
~89% savings | |
| NC24s v2 | 24 | 448 GiB | 2,948 GiB | 4X P100 | $7,831.4400/month | $6,518.8927/month
~16% savings | $4,831.2130/month
~38% savings | $783.1440/month
~90% savings | |
Reserved Virtual Machine Instances are currently not available for the NCsv2-series.
The Azure NC v2-series Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on 31 August 2023. Refer to our
migration guide for help on next steps.
NCsv3-series
NCsv3 series virtual machines is a new addition to the GPU product family offering the next generation of our popular NC-series machines, powered by NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. Customers can take advantage of these updated GPUs for traditional HPC workloads that will benefit from a performance boost, powering scenarios like reservoir modeling, DNA sequencing, protein analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, and others. These new GPUs can provide 1.5 times the computational performance of the current NCsv2-series. And like our other NC series, we offer a configuration, NC24rs v3, with InfiniBand networking for workloads that require fast interconnect, like Oil and Gas, Automotive, and Genomics to also accelerate scale out capability as well as improved single instance performance.
| Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary
storage | GPU | Pay as you go | 1 year savings plan | 3 year savings plan | Spot | Add to
estimate |
|---|
| NC6s v3 | 6 | 112 GiB | 736 GiB | 1X V100 | $2,790.7900/month | $2,045.6498/month
~26% savings | $1,484.9806/month
~46% savings | $768.0257/month
~72% savings | |
| NC12s v3 | 12 | 224 GiB | 1,474 GiB | 2X V100 | $5,581.5800/month | $4,091.2996/month
~26% savings | $2,969.9612/month
~46% savings | $1,536.0507/month
~72% savings | |
| NC24rs v3 | 24 | 448 GiB | 2,948 GiB | 4X V100 | $12,279.3300/month | $9,000.7467/month
~26% savings | $6,533.8285/month
~46% savings | $3,379.2715/month
~72% savings | |
| NC24s v3 | 24 | 448 GiB | 2,948 GiB | 4X V100 | $11,163.1600/month | $8,182.5992/month
~26% savings | $5,939.9151/month
~46% savings | $3,072.1013/month
~72% savings | |
NCas_T4_v3 Series
NCas_T4_v3 series virtual machine is a new addition to the Azure GPU family specifically designed for the AI and machine learning workloads. The VMs feature 4 NVIDIA T4 GPUs with 16 GB of memory each, up to 64 non-multithreaded AMD EPYC 7V12(Rome) processor cores, and 448 GiB of system memory. These virtual machines are ideal to run ML and AI workloads utilizing Cuda, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Caffe, and other Frameworks or the graphics workloads using NVIDIA RTX Enterprise technology.
| Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary
storage | GPU | Pay as you go | 1 year savings plan | 3 year savings plan | Spot | Add to
estimate |
|---|
| NC4as T4 v3 | 4 | 28 GiB | 180 GiB | 1X T4 | $480.3400/month | $351.8016/month
~26% savings | $254.1495/month
~47% savings | $100.7750/month
~79% savings | |
| NC8as T4 v3 | 8 | 56 GiB | 360 GiB | 1X T4 | $686.2000/month | $502.5758/month
~26% savings | $363.0655/month
~47% savings | $143.9648/month
~79% savings | |
| NC16as T4 v3 | 16 | 110 GiB | 360 GiB | 1X T4 | $1,098.6500/month | $804.6498/month
~26% savings | $581.2990/month
~47% savings | $230.4968/month
~79% savings | |
| NC64as T4 v3 | 64 | 440 GiB | 2,880 GiB | 4X T4 | $3,971.2000/month | $2,908.5098/month
~26% savings | $2,101.1590/month
~47% savings | $833.1578/month
~79% savings | |
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