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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News The RTX 5090's GB202 GPU will reportedly be the largest desktop chip from Nvidia since 2018 coming in at 744mm-squared — 22% larger than AD102 on t....

    AMD is unlikely to admit it any time soon, but it's well established they tried to go multi chiplet for highend RDNA 4 and it didn't...

    Today at 1:02 PM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News Nvidia warns of gaming GPU shortage this quarter, recovery in early 2025 — Chipmaker rakes in record profits as net income soars by 109% YoY.

    The majority of those Steam systems are going to be laptops. 1080p testing with an X3D CPU using a 4090 has no applicable value to...

    Friday at 10:49 AM
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    spongiemaster reacted to JarredWaltonGPU's post in the thread News Nvidia warns of gaming GPU shortage this quarter, recovery in early 2025 — Chipmaker rakes in record profits as net income soars by 109% YoY with Like.

    This is called business planning. If you know you are about to make a bunch of existing products... well, not "obsolete" but "no longer...

    Thursday at 11:54 PM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News AMD Ryzen 9000 pricing freefalls, hits all-time lows — Micro Center slashes up to 28% off Zen 5.

    Most US customers pay taxes on PC purchases as well that isn't included in the prices that vendors list. Anywhere from 0-9.5% depending...

    Tuesday at 8:36 PM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News Nvidia introduces a new merged CPU and GPU AI processor — GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip has four B200 GPUs, two Grace CPUs.

    Looks like Nintendo Switch 2 dev kits are starting to ship to developers.

    Tuesday at 6:21 PM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News Intel Arc B580 "Battlemage" GPU boxes appear in shipping manifests — Xe2 may be preparing for its desktop debut in December.

    You've never heard of RGBHV because everyone called them BNC connectors. I had a Samsung 900NF CRT back in the day that had them. Just...

    Tuesday at 6:14 PM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News Intel celebrates the arrival of MRDIMMs — a plug and play solution for ultrafast memory that offers double the memory bandwidth of standard DRAM.

    Yes. Micron said right from the initial announcement, that the memory was available to everyone...

    Tuesday at 12:32 AM
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    spongiemaster reacted to Eximo's post in the thread News Intel celebrates the arrival of MRDIMMs — a plug and play solution for ultrafast memory that offers double the memory bandwidth of standard DRAM with Like.

    That's DRDIMM to you. He didn't spend all those years at memory school to be called MR.

    Tuesday at 12:27 AM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News The PS5 Pro is surprisingly efficient — 30% performance uplift while operating at nearly the same power draw as the base PS5.

    When he said the PS5 is about to enter the final phase of its lifespan, he meant sales are going to enter the decline phase, not that...

    Tuesday at 12:23 AM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News The PS5 Pro is surprisingly efficient — 30% performance uplift while operating at nearly the same power draw as the base PS5.

    The GPU feature set, specifically the ray tracing performance, is what we're supposed to see with RDNA4.

    Tuesday at 12:16 AM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News GPU cooling supplier claims Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs will "seize the whole market starting in December" — Auras says key components like cold pl....

    History tells us you're wrong. 3090's are still selling for $700 on the used market which is the same price they were selling at the...

    Tuesday at 12:01 AM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News Nvidia's data center Blackwell GPUs reportedly overheat, require rack redesigns and cause delays for customers.

    Musk just purchased 300,000 Blackwell GPU's. He's certainly not the only one with 10's of thousands of Nvidia GPU's in a single...

    Monday at 9:11 AM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News Nvidia's data center Blackwell GPUs reportedly overheat, require rack redesigns and cause delays for customers.

    Enterprise hardware is never clocked like that. Efficiency and reliability are significantly more important to enterprise customers...

    Monday at 12:43 AM
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News Musk's concerns over Google DeepMind 'AI Dictatorship' revealed in emails from 2016 — communications released during the recent OpenAI court case.

    His concerns weren't about AI, they were about Google dominating the AI market. He wasn't being altruistic, he was concerned about his...

    Nov 17, 2024
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    spongiemaster replied to the thread News AMD dominates chip sales on Amazon — top ten best selling CPUs all come from Team Red, Intel’s highest entry sits at 11th place.

    Despite continuously punching themselves in the face for years, Intel's Client Computing Group is still generating more profits than...

    Nov 17, 2024

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