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The Fury X is only about 15% larger than the 6900 XT The way the pictures are shot, you can't see the thickness of the radiator AMD has cooled much more with a single 120mm rad - look at the R9 295x2

The W5700 exists as well -- AMD's pro cards are only one generation behind at this point, fairly common for a pro product since the testing & validation takes a lot more time than a consumer card.

Theory: Norton is using this as a stepping stone to mining crypto silently in the background for their own benefit. Users won't think much about it since antivirus software is already known to be resource-heavy. Alternate theory: They were already doing that, and now want to commercialize it.

A note: The silicon in these is almost certainly Samsung C-Die, a far inferior overclocking die, identifying falsely in Thaiphoon as B-Die. You can confirm this by checking the version number on the label - v4.31 is true B-die, while v4.32 is C-die.

"[AMD has] inconsistent performance from 4 glued-together desktop die." - Intel marketing dept.

Regardless of how impressive Tenstorrent's work is, my first impression reading this article was "Wow, this is the most buzzwordy company I've ever heard of"

I think their supply shortages are more due to production limits on TSMC 7nm than anything the company itself can control.

To be clear, is this a review for the 80+ White rated W1, or unrated N1?

With more and more things going cloud-based I've seen a lot of cards take that approach-- GRIDs, Teslas, and other datacenter cards have always done it, but more recently there's been Quadros and even a 2080Ti I think that have been made in a passive-airflow form. They honestly probably run...

The real reason these cards exist, and also why they don't come in 3-slot flavors, is AI research and 3D rendering, since those workloads benefit from as many GPUs as you can throw at them. Dual slot blower cards are basically the only way to put more than 2 cards in a standard-ish case.

TLDR: your CPU no longer has a platypus controlling it

For comparison, a 32-core Threadripper is only about 1500pts ahead of that. Insane.

This board is pretty useless for miners. USB to PCIe adapters don't work on real USB ports, they use the physical USB connector to transmit normal PCIe signals.

Folding@home has been around for years, it's a project by Stanford University.

You're right about the OpenGL issue- I remember running older versions of Minecraft on similar Q45 based systems but apparently they've upped the OpenGL requirement in recent years. However, Minecraft is still a very easy game to run on essentially any graphics card, as long as it supports...