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Well, shit, when that rig gets refreshed, I know where we're buying the memory!
GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.
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Well, shit, when that rig gets refreshed, I know where we're buying the memory!
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Intel Arc B580 with 24GB memory teased by MaxSun - Pro card.
Samsung launches Odyssey OLED G6: World’s first 500Hz OLED monitor at $1488 (archive) - Tee hee.
Samsung launches Odyssey OLED G6: World’s first 500Hz OLED monitor at $1488 (archive) - Tee hee.
ARM on DESKTOP: System 76 Thelio Ampere Workstation Review
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Heil Samsung???
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The comment section on ARM desktop/laptop product videos is always filled with pro-x86/anti-ARM stuff and I can't tell if it's coordinated shilling or if x86 actually does have dedicated fanboys who shill it for free.
(I can't believe I found another person talking about Elbrus on the normieweb)
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I do it for free. More often in the SBC thread where it's important to repeatedly point out that most people shouldn't buy an ARM board. I'm sure it has never been a better time to use something like that Ampere workstation though.
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How is ARM a fad? All phones have been using it for years, Apple proved it’s way better at laptops than x86, and Amazon that it’s better at servers and datacentre tasks.
x86 was always meant to be an interim product. IBM chose it because the Z80 and the 6500 were owned by the competitors, and Intel subsequently failed to replace it at least twice not because it was so good but simply because iAPX432 and Itanium were unadulterated garbage.
x86 was always meant to be an interim product. IBM chose it because the Z80 and the 6500 were owned by the competitors, and Intel subsequently failed to replace it at least twice not because it was so good but simply because iAPX432 and Itanium were unadulterated garbage.
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There's definitely good sense in warning people not to buy into weird ARM boards with locked bootloaders or hardware that's likely going to be unsupported by the next major kernel version. I remember the golden era of the rpi clones and how half of them were e-waste within 2 years because there was no way to get the proprietary graphics chipset working on anything except the specifically curated linux distro the chinese slop shop cobbled together for it.
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Zen 4c and Sierra Forest showed that the power efficiency advantage of Arm CPUs had little or nothing to do with the ISA and everything to do with the chip designers targeting power efficiency across the entire core rather than raw speed. Ampere's server business has been absolutely clobbered by the x86 giants getting off their asses and making some SKUs that are targeted toward the market Ampere was gunning for.
Apple, for their part, figured out that rather than blasting up to something retarded like 5 GHz to handle compute-bound work and choking to death on memory-bound work, if you keep the CPU at 3.2 GHz during compute bound work and massively increase bandwidth so you don't sit on your hands during the memory-bound work, you overall score massive power savings. Well, also helps to have an OS that's not a massive piece of pajeetware shit.
Nothing's stopping Intel or AMD from doing something similar; your guess is as good as mine as to why they don't.
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U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs
I'm hoping that this does not pass or even make headway at all because it's a stupendously retarded idea.
I'm hoping that this does not pass or even make headway at all because it's a stupendously retarded idea.
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You will never be a real CPU. You have no computing power, you have no instruction sets, you have no backwards compatibility. You are a homosexual architecture twisted by Brits and troons into a crude mockery of technology’s perfection.
Happy page 486 btw
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Because the tech press still chases high boost clocks and core counts over memory bandwidth. That's my guess anyway.
Teenage me would have also been utterly mystified to discover that MacOS is now somehow less gay than Windows in 2025.
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That's the assault GPU of mass destruction regulation I've been waiting a couple years for.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/genera...ing-threats-and-potential-mitigations.150042/
And it's only the beginning!
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Reminds me of the kerfuffle with encryption in the 90s. We even have our own modern analogues to clipper chips!
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I wonder if this means that whichever the last gen of GPU that doesn’t have this tracking feature bullshit will see a big increase in value or at least retain its value for way longer than normal.
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It's possible that the industry has had forewarning and can start inserting it into newly produced Blackwell and RDNA/Instinct GPUs, making it difficult to avoid on the used market. But we'll have to get real about what the tracker is doing, how it works, if it can be disabled, and if it's a legitimate threat to user privacy. There is always whining about management engines, Pluton, etc. before there is good analysis of the risks. The problem is that if the first generation of tracking isn't good enough, the bill is already calling for "other potential chip security mechanisms" to be studied and implemented.
Nvidia GPU tracking tech proposed by US lawmakers in smuggling crackdown (archive)
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It has bipartisan support up until Intel, AMD, Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta all make the right calls and suddenly there's zero support for it. Export restrictions were fine when it was mostly just hitting Nvidia stuff but this is the sort of thing that affects the entire industry and I imagine the lobbying against it will be quite fierce.
Also Tom Cotton is not in the favored inner circle with Trump and I could see that really hurting this effort in the long-run.
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I have a feeling that this will make its way into GPUs that ship globally, so even buying from other countries wouldn't stop this.
I was almost tempted, but even the 200% performance increase isn't worth the AU$6500 price tag.
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Maybe so, but "bipartisan" is still a very scary word when it comes to shitty, anti-consumer legislation. I predict the worst.
Tom Cotton is Israel's greatest soldier. What a putz.
If we don't want it smuggled into Chyna, it needs the tracking chip. Maybe a kill switch too while we're at it.
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No need to bother, they'll just burn themselves.
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Yeah and you have to register your GPU with an Email account so Jensen can kill your GPU when you say mean things about NVidia.