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...some interesting tidbits regarding AMD's RDNA4 GPUs - and also some nice tech dive into upcoming graphics techniques, including into Unreal 5 & Co

I am genuinely looking forward to multiple & trustworthy 3rd-party reviews of the upcoming 7950X3D next week, also re. its asymmetric chiplet design impact on OS and apps. I may not like differing chiplets in the same CPU but that and/or P+E cores are probably here to stay, unless one moves into the high-end HEDT space. The other thing I am still waiting for is some seriously clocked & low timings 32 GB Dual Rank A-die sticks, s.th. at least as fast as 7200 DDR5 (lower speed Dual Rank A-die already exists). I know that 7200 speed won't likely work with the 7950X/3D but for other reasons which include upcoming HEDT builds, I want to settle on as few DDR5 versions as possible for interchangeability down the line. I am not too worried about cooling the 7950X3D though - my 5950X has hit 265 W when fully oc'ed, and its cooling system - one of two loops below - has 1320x63 mm rads and dual D5 pumps (used to have 3x D5s, but I downsized it ...). Regarding 'case' and all that, I don't foresee too many issues (other than that itch to build s.th. new and different yet again). The 5950X Dark Hero / RTX 4090 combo at the lower right would simply move to the upper left and displace the CH8 Hero WF with the 3950X that in turn will move on to other work-related tasks in another build. FYI, I also recommend the use of Koolance QD4s (lower left below) as they make swapping components a lot easier, especially with big complex dual loops. I have used this type of QD since 2014 or so and very much like and recommend them.

...yeah, I noticed that. It must be a vbios thing. On my cards below, it correctly identifies the 'GPU model type', but the Asus 3090 is actually running the EVGA KingPin 520 vbios while the Giga-G-OC 4090 is running the Galax HoF vbios.

banned coz... why not ban Frugal on here ?

you are all banned...coz no good reason whatsoever

@Andrew ...noticed another new smaller FS2020 package update re. marine vessels... London docks ...near Nice back in Vancouver

I was looking at that earlier, after watching Level1Tech's related vid on Intel's new HEDT (below) yesterday. Look ma - no E-cores ?! I am putting together some hardware lists for a light-to-medium AI jv project w/4x NVidia Ada L per mobo, but as much as the new Intel HEDT looks decent, I would not want to risk it as nobody has gotten any of those CPUs for serious review yet, and there are always those nasty early problems for early adopters. The Asus Sage for the Threadripper Pro (below vid) vid is almost identical but has been out a lot longer and matured. In any case, I am glad that the HEDT market is finally getting some attention again from Intel (10980XE seems a long time ago). AMD has been sitting on their hands re. regular Threadrippers w/o Intel pushing them in that segment, as much as there actually are engineering samples of the 5990 'regular' TR out there. My last two builds were the only non-HEDTs I have done in a decade or so...time to get back to that !

...one step at a time, my friend, one step at a time ! There is of course HWBot with a ton of CPU and GPU benchmark links, though I like to concentrate on a few good ones outside the 3DMark space that I know are good 'system tests' beyond just GPU. I am currently also trying to find a machine learning one that would be fairly easily installed and run (there are a few options) ...down the line, I might make more of a GPU benchie combo thread, depending on responses (so you, @Sir Beregond & @Bastiaan_NL & the other usual suspects better get going on Octanebench ). I haven't run Catzilla in about seven years or so, but I'll see about adding that soon as well.

...nice ! Since the Superposition results screen only says NVidia Graphics Device 12 GB (GA102), is it safe to assume that this is the 3080 Ti FE GPU in your sig rig ? never mind - saw your edit/update above w/ GPUZ

...cool, may be my old ATI software will still come in handy after all

...got to update the graph(s) on top now...ran an old EVGA 980 Classified in Superposition 4K and Superposition 8K...air-cooled. Seems to be among the fastest GTX 980s at Unigine, and may be have a bit left in the tank. FYI, the 4090 is almost 10x as fast in the 8K test - that's 8-year progress, I guess

...let us know how it performs !

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Hello After my recent > Superposition 4K & 8K thread, this benchmarking refers to Otoy's 'Octanebench' (download link below). I find that Octane sniffs out marginal overclocks on GPU-core and VRAM quite quickly when getting ready for harder HWBot benches which @Bastiaan_NL will like. I use it to define max stable VRAM and again separately max stable core. Unfortunately, you need NVidia cards with CUDA to run it in Windows (7,10,11...) but some AMD cards in MacOS can apparently also work with this. One great advantage of Octanebench is that you can not only run dual, triple or even a gazillion cards of the same gen, but even of different gens combined, with or without 'RTX'. Just leave the RTX checkmark on even for cards that don't have it. > Download link for Octanebench Starting with my old trusty 780 Ti Classified, air-cooled, medium-heavy OC ...a factory water-blocked Aorus 2080 Ti Xtreme WF WB (360 W max), medium-heavy OC ...and now the twin Aorus 2080 Ti Xtreme WF WB (360 W max each), medium-heavy OC

...you are right about shaking the foundations - not only of the internet, but at the end of the day almost any media, knowledge store and really, any digital stream (information, entertainment...). I am getting involved in an AI joint-venture project, and the whole topic of hidden layers, weights and bias (meant in their respective AI technical context) has some impact on randomness, or rather the appearance of it. It will become so easy to manipulate folks by introducing some matrix-multiplied 'random beauty mark'...

$1,599 RTX 4090 Beats $6,800 RTX 6000 Ada in Content Creation - Higher performance for 76% less source ...I suspected that

...drove by there earlier (turned right on that intersection) - feels weird to see it from above ...near-by (frozen) mountain lake, can be done as a day-hike looparama

...speed limit ? What's 'a speed limit' anyways ?

@Andrew '''Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your First Officer speaking. Due to the unforeseen insanity of our captain, we will offer you a free voucher for the lunch you just lost...we at (Sc)Air BC hope you enjoy the rest of your flight"...

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...yeah, not a surprise at all...especially re. ASML, that together with its partner Zeiss makes the key components of what China is after (incl. ASML customer TSMC itself).

Nice view ! The sunshade also looks trick in this shot.

Wow ...too bad that Amazon doesn't have any for exchange. There are multiple 4090 Suprim / X for sale in stores near here (W.Canada) given recent increased shipments, though they still move relatively quickly off the shelves.

...this may / may not be related, but Lenovo likes to lock down certain AMD chips which theoretically could be triggered by a combo of prior bios changes, a dead / disconnected battery and other changes. I realize this doesn't fit your issue dead on, but worth thinking about.