China's GPU Competition: 96GB Huawei Atlas 300I Duo Dual-GPU Tear-Down

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Sponsor: Hyte Y70 and Touch Infinite on their site https://geni.us/Ir9vKEK We bought the Huawei Atlas 300i Duo GPU, which is marketed as a 96GB VRAM capacity card (although it's actually 48GB x 2 GPUs). We've had some compatibility issues with the card so far, and although we can likely technically force it to work on some platforms, it's only officially supported by a narrow band of Huawei servers that utilize China domestic Kunpeng CPUs. The Atlas 300i Duo is a domestic-to-China GPU solution designed by Huawei. Based on early numbers, it isn't a meaningful competitor right now; however, with ongoing GPU export controls between both the US and China on each other, there is more motivation than ever for China to develop domestic alternatives in the event NVIDIA GPUs become more restricted. Regardless of the reasoning, new GPU competition is always interesting, even if it'll take some time for them to meaningfully and actually compete (if ever). Watch our AI GPU documentary featuring Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI Check out our previous Zhaoxin CPU deep-dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DanhnASClQ And our Chinese Linux coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIgBsz1MduI The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Huawei Atlas 300i Duo 96GB 01:44 - Ad Spot in Chinese (no, it's not AI) 02:28 - It Doesn't Work - Yet 05:05 - The Solution 05:40 - Detailing the Card 07:14 - Tearing Down the Huawei GPU 09:40 - Revealing the Two GPUs 12:40 - VRAM 15:49 - Comparing PCB Density vs NVIDIA 18:06 - The Struggle Begins 20:15 - The Cooler 22:44 - Memory on the Back 24:11 - Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Tear-Down, Editing Andrew Coleman: Camera Tim Phetdara: Editing