Recent content by tsamolotoff

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    Discussion RDNA 5 / UDNA (CDNA Next) speculation

    Yes, ok, but why then the poor man's version has only two, and all the ML/hyperscaler parts have 3 or 4? It'd be another vector of attack for the NV Foundry and the other nv tech PR if the usual super-important things like pathtracing, framegen etc aren't enough to keep the claimed feature...
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    Discussion RDNA 5 / UDNA (CDNA Next) speculation

    Normally, yes, but is it in this case? Why waste silicon on a feature that's only for some sort of enterprise/niche audience. Thats' why I hypothesized that it's a combo of two cut-down dies (each of which has dual VCNs) with something like 90-ish CUs and 256 bit bus linked via something like...
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    Discussion RDNA 5 / UDNA (CDNA Next) speculation

    Are those top 4 SKUs apart from the poverty version some sort of dual-chip design (even if this table is legit and not done by some certain people making MLID look like an AI)? all of them have >2 VCNs (is that the video encoding engine or what?), and look like to be cut down for the sake of...
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    It's been like this since two or three years ago, just set DX9 inside zoom and you'd be good to go
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    Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)

    Why partly, it's the sole reason why most 8xx boards have worse pcie connectivity as compared with their 6xx counterparts. My board (650e master) can have 2x pcie5.0 drives connected directly to CPU and one to the chipset (via pcie4x riser card) without dropping any lanes from the GPU, newer...
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    How so, it's actually a good thing for Mr Leather Jacket - old GPUs will become obsolete, so their owners would have to upgrade to a shiny new RTX 9060 with 8gb of blazing fast gddr9xtxt vram
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    That was actual legit bios mod with signature hack, fully featured editing et al, this is just taking out your trusty CH341a and flashing a random 9070xt bios. You could do the same for 7900xtx, it is just some people burned their flash chips because they didn't use 1.8V adaptor while trying to...
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    Current RTX 96 gb monsters for sure, but was it enough back in the days for serious professional stuff ? (I'm not familiar with this side of 3d graphix, so no idea how much VRAM is needed for proper offline rendering of ILM grade stuff)
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    Actually, if you remember the initial RTX presentation back in the days, most of it was devoted to professional applications of RTRT while gaming was on the backseat. I guess nVidia didn't initially plan for using it as the next iteration of gimpworks, but the opportunity naturally presented...
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    Okay, if it is opposite, just run Vega with huge undervolt and some sort of light load (some old 2009 game, for example) and report your results. It is the same story as with CO "overclock" (it aint, really) with Ryzens - CPU is stable at high load (like prime95 or linx or w/e) with very...
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    Isn't it like ages old and also opengl ? You might try replacing opengl libs with dlls from pre 24.5.1 versions of the driver, some time after that they've changed something with ogl and now it doesn't work in fullscreen mode for me for more than half a year. Due to how power limited n3x cards...
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    60 fps in UE5 titles is like full power even in FullHD :laughing:
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    Because it's amd , they've locked PPT for no reason on n31 (and it can run daily with like 800W power budget with no damage to memory or compute chiplets). With nVidia there are at least some gpus with unlimited PL vbios, but for AMD you have to use evc2se or other hw mods.
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    Not only that, there are also timing straps that might make something like 2124 (second last strap for vanilla 6900xt) more performant than 2150 even if there is no ECC performance hit. You can check that with vulkan membench, although it might not reflect the whole difference
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    Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

    Boys get GT1030 for physx, men get their trusty THERMI from their sheds