Wednesday, October 12
Daily News Stuff 12 October 2022
Hating On Butterflies Edition
Hating On Butterflies Edition
Top Story
- Nvidia's RTX 4090 is here and it's every bit as expensive as we were promised. (Tom's Hardware)
Is it fast, though?
Yes. If you play games at 4K, it's 50% faster than the 3090 Ti and 60% faster than AMD's 6950 XT. If you play games at 4K with ray tracing and AI upscaling - which you don't, because that would have been a miserable experience with any existing card - it averages four times the speed of the RTX 3080.
And for compute workloads like Blender rendering it's about 80% faster than the 3090 Ti, which was previously the fastest card available for that task.
The Founders' Edition would fit in my case, as it turns out - it's a triple slot card, not a four-slot monstrosity like some of the custom versions.
Question is do I want to drop a monthly mortgage payment on a graphics card when I rarely play anything more demanding than Minecraft? I can justify a fast CPU because my CPU basically runs flat out fifteen hours of every day, but I think I can dial back on the GPU a notch or two. Or four, honestly.
Tech News
- What exactly is stochastic terrorism? (Substack)
Short answer:
1. Person A said something I don't like.
2. Person B did something I don't like.
3. This is Person A's fault even though there is literally no imaginable causal connection between the two.
Long answer - very long answer - is that article.
- Hackers stole $100 million worth of imaginary mangoes from the Solana blockchain. (P2E Analytics)
Or something like that. I don't know anymore. Imaginary money went poof.
- The worst is yet to come for the global economy, says the IMF. (DevEx)
"We're here to make sure of that", they added.
- Intel is looking at laying of thousands of workers due to the world economic poopage. (Bloomberg)
Can't entirely blame Intel here; they've been doing better technically lately than they have for years. And AMD could be facing a similar situation.
- The SEC is investigating Ugly Monkey JPEG company Yuga Labs for printing funny money. (Decrypt)
Or funny bond certificates, I guess. Unregistered securities.
You can kind of expect the SEC to come calling when you sell seven billion dollars worth of chimp pics.
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It'd be real nice if graphics hardware actually did what all previous electronics did and came *down* in price at some point.
I use the really high-powered graphics cards as math co-processors for numerical simulations. The cuda programming language makes it extremely simple to write applications, but it ties me to Nvidia. (Also, there are various cross-compilers for scripting languages, like mexcuda for matlab.)
It's been a while since I looked at OpenCL - Not sure if it's still a going thing. You mentioned AMD getting into the graphics card space? If so, language support would be critical.
I use the really high-powered graphics cards as math co-processors for numerical simulations. The cuda programming language makes it extremely simple to write applications, but it ties me to Nvidia. (Also, there are various cross-compilers for scripting languages, like mexcuda for matlab.)
It's been a while since I looked at OpenCL - Not sure if it's still a going thing. You mentioned AMD getting into the graphics card space? If so, language support would be critical.
Posted by: anonymouse at Wednesday, October 12 2022 10:52 PM (hRoyQ)
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"Question is do I want to drop a monthly mortgage payment on a graphics card when I rarely play anything more demanding than Minecraft?"
It's just crazy expensive, and don't forget that whole 450W thing. That's a lot of heat to dump.
My RX 6800 is flaky and Gigabyte failed to fix it so now I'm struggling to keep from buying a new card when the RX 7000s will be announed in a month. It helps that there kind of aren't any easily-available 6800 or 6800XTs right now, because I have to drop to a 67x0 or increase to a 69x0. But the sad thing about that is, becauase massive price drops happened just after the return window closed, so I could get something like the Sapphire 6950 Nitro+ SE for at least $100 less than I paid for my 6800. *sob*
(Oh, Amazon has my card for $599. That hurts.)
It's just crazy expensive, and don't forget that whole 450W thing. That's a lot of heat to dump.
My RX 6800 is flaky and Gigabyte failed to fix it so now I'm struggling to keep from buying a new card when the RX 7000s will be announed in a month. It helps that there kind of aren't any easily-available 6800 or 6800XTs right now, because I have to drop to a 67x0 or increase to a 69x0. But the sad thing about that is, becauase massive price drops happened just after the return window closed, so I could get something like the Sapphire 6950 Nitro+ SE for at least $100 less than I paid for my 6800. *sob*
(Oh, Amazon has my card for $599. That hurts.)
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