I mean you can dissipate all the heat of a 2kW electric space heater with a single fan. 500W isnt that much compared to GPU farms with a bunch of gpus in a single rack slot.
Considering that any server with one of these is likely to have two of them, that’s quite a lot of heat to dissipate.
A cpu also generally needs to be kept cooler than a space heater.
My home server has a row of surprisingly powerful and small fans and that’s just for a few years old dual Xeon system.
I have never personally been (knowing) near a GPU farm but I have been behind a crazy ass router (Cisco ASR 9000 something) that’s like 10+ U. The airflow behind the router is crazy.
I mean you can dissipate all the heat of a 2kW electric space heater with a single fan. 500W isnt that much compared to GPU farms with a bunch of gpus in a single rack slot.
difference is temperature, it’s easier to cool things when there is a large temperature difference
Considering that any server with one of these is likely to have two of them, that’s quite a lot of heat to dissipate.
A cpu also generally needs to be kept cooler than a space heater.
My home server has a row of surprisingly powerful and small fans and that’s just for a few years old dual Xeon system. I have never personally been (knowing) near a GPU farm but I have been behind a crazy ass router (Cisco ASR 9000 something) that’s like 10+ U. The airflow behind the router is crazy.