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    They could well release both: a Ti card, basically just faster 4090, and a Titan with more RAM and the Titan features. The latter would fiercely compete with their professional offerings so not sure if they would do that. My impression is that they have been dumbing down the GeForce line (example anticonsumer practices here: blocking features in the drivers, crudely removing the NVLink socket) to limit professional use and force users who need those features to buy the grossly overpriced pro cards (somewhat idiotically named since Ampere).
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    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-3090-ti-out-now/ Starting at $1,999, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti will be available for purchase from top add-in card providers such as ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galax, Gigabyte, INNO3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. And a limited-edition NVIDIA Founders Edition board.
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    Ti is not quite the same as TITAN, it's cut-down. For one thing, Nvidia kept the reduced to 50% double-precision processing speed in the Ti cards, same as in the rest of GeForce Ampere line. There are also other differences, although at least they retained NVLink. Will be interesting to see if they bring it back in 4090 Ti. 3090 Ti isn't that much faster than 3090, yet there was a whopping price jump. This time around, the autoscalped price of the 4090 will help Nvidia launch the 4090 Ti at $2k or more.
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    3090Ti at $2k MSRP.
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    I am not sure 2020/2021 are great reference points for the GPU market, due to severe distortion by "cryptodicks" (C) @Raiderman Yeah, looks like the FTC is more focused on maintaining fair competition, and in that regard high prices are of no concern as they actually encourage the somewhat impotent Mr Azor&Co. to try to raise up to the occasion, so to speak :) Perversely, pricing too low would expose NVidia to FTC investigation. There is no consumer protection mandate there :( From that point of view AMDs presence in the GPU market seems a bit useless. They don't produce viable GPUs, they overcharge too, and thus support Nvidia's pricing. Perhaps FTC could look into possible price fixing, but without a smoking gun it's hopeless.
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    FYI Bro, the US inflation numbers for the last 6 years are: 2022 - 7.1 2021 - 6.8 2020 - 1.2 2019 - 2.1 2018 - 2.2 20.17 - 2.2 Edit: sorry, missed Papu's post on that earlier :) These are general inflation numbers though (CPI), so like I mentioned earlier not hugely relevant to the ongoing GPU pricing fiasco which is affected by the continuing chip manufacturing capacity shortfall, and further driven by the green monopolistic goblin NGreedia. Just look at the AL pricing mess, the 4080 12GB, the castration of existing Ampere models without changing the model designation etc. They publicly announced they are going to manipulate prices to extract max profits. I wonder if FTC shouldn't be taking a look. We should also remember that normally tech gets significantly cheaper in terms of performance/price. Look at Intel - same price as last year, but performance up at least 30-40%! Ferocious competition can work wonders, plus I think differences in company ethos and leadership play a role as well, as Intel wasn't really ripping people off to the same extent when AMD wasn't breathing down their necks. Intel has its owns fabs though, which is obviously helping these days. Anyway, Happy New Year folks, may it at least not be worse than the previous one again. The bar is fairly low, come on 2023 - you can do it!
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    What does S in KS stand for? Silly?
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    I don't think this is an AGI, so we do still have a chance, but obviously there will be some impact on white collar jobs if you can automate at this level.
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    6GB was on the low side 4 years ago. If you look at benchmarks, current games are pushing 11-12GB (ok, probably not the titles which would comfortably run on a 3060), and of course the extended VRAM can get very useful outside of the gaming arena.
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    Amiga OS

    Etern4l replied to Eban's topic in General Discussion

    I guess, although the original Amiga OS had very little in common with Linux, it was much lighter. In fact most games etc. would just use a very low level API layer and program the hardware directly, whereas in Linux (and Windows) everything has to go through libraries and kernel drivers.
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    Not as militant as the extreme right - have yet to storm the Capitol :) I am not sure who you are referring to specifically, but given your description of the left and right, I am not surprised there are people who are fed up with both. Hopefully they are trying to find a middle way, as opposed to not giving a damn anymore. My heuristics is simply to try to be open to diverse viewpoints, but proceed with caution if one side says one thing and the other says the other. Obviously this is more applicable to reported facts rather than opinions. Fortunately, US folks can benefit from the existence of different states. Fed up with California taxes? Move to Texas, Florida etc. I know someone who got moved to Boston for work. An OK kindergarten costs $3k/mo lol. They are already looking to move out.
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    The 3060 is very power efficient. 130W is plenty of power for it. Yet, even looking at this entry-level card, Nvidia nerfed the laptop variant as it only has 6GB of VRAM, whereas the desktop cards have 12GB. Of course, once we move up the food chain we see the laptop/desktop gap increase further.
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    Clearly there is some truth to what you are saying, probably more so in the context of the unregulated US media, but the overall view is too extreme and also defeatist and thus impractical in my view. I mean we can't just blindly watch random YT channels and take the information received as gospel. I would suggest the following, hopefully fairly uncontroversial news filtering heuristics: 1. If a source is obviously biased one way or another (most outlets in the US unless a diverse majority are saying the same thing, plus the YT channel above), then the information needs to be treated as suspicious and verified 1a. A corollary, which actually applies to most news reported (minus the commentary): if multiple disparate sources are saying the same thing, it's likely true even though some fringe outlets claim otherwise (e.g. all media outlets reported that a shooting occurred in Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec 14, 2022 - the core reported event was not a piece of crap, spin etc., although obviously the commentary certainly varied - and thus became less reliable) 1b. Information from a suspect source or even similar group of sources just needs to be verified, period. In the example above, all I needed to do is google the headlines that were flashed in the video and have a quick read to notice significant discrepancies. As for YT sources, I would be extra careful. All those guys are small fries that have to make a living, and it takes much less resources to corrupt them. The majority make money as influencers which implies bias, there are no points for or dollars in impartiality.
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    I hear you, have been to LAN parties myself, and love PC hardware. The difference with many other hobbies I can think of is that in the other areas you are not really a slave to a single company. In contrast, we have realistic (and often slightly mind-boggling) choice in terms of any PC component but the GPU. I would push against getting fleeced on that basis. Actually, it's not just about the exploitative pricing, it's also the artificially suppressed stock in order to get Ampere moving and at the same time support the price - this in turn fuels scalping. The only people who can teach Nvidia The Abusive Monopolist a lesson at the moment are the consumers. Unfortunately, those who are best placed to do something about it typically care the least. Do people really need to play Cyberpunk in 4K@120 right now or would 60 fps actually do for a few more months?
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    I think it depends on the use case and the pricing. For instance, with Ampere, would it make sense for a pure gamer to get a 3090 over 3080? It used to be that the premium for the top tier model was excessive. Now, Nvidia cleverly manipulated the pricing such that the 4080 looks like a shit deal. All they really did is jacked up the price of the second-best model, actually nerfed it, and as a result they are extracting "crypto boom" money for the top tier model. Brilliant. Chances are the 4090 will get significantly cheaper as we progress through 2023, once they have harvested the premium on all the enthusiasts and early adopters. If people recognised this as an adverserial strategy by a monopolist, and actively "voted with their wallets" against such practices, the strategy would backfire, but again - apparently they know their customers well enough not to worry about this. Exactly. Self-evidently a rare commodity. It really depends on the pricing and requirements. The lower-tier stuff could be too slow in some cases, whereas the top-tier models could be an overkill. Seems hard to generalise. With ADL, NVidia made the 4090 look like the best thing since sliced bread compared to everything else, but in terms of performance/price Ampere is actually holding its own, which we know is a problem for them. If not for all the Ampere stock, they would have hiked the AL launch prices even more.
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    The problem here is confirmation bias, a massive human flaw that was fine in the simpler environment we enjoyed 50 000 years ago, but - like many artifacts of our evolution - is becoming more a problem these days. People watch the YTer above, because what he purveys confirms their beliefs. If they watched some alternative source of information, they would just reject anything to do contrary. No (to very limited) fact checking - "ah yes, saw the same on Fox" (no pun intended) is not fact checking - is typically conducted. If it were, and to be fair this often is a fairly laborious process requiring mental discipline to get past primitive biased reactions, people might have been more cautious when it comes to social media "truths". Very happy to believe anything that's not blatantly contrary to evidence and facts, and obviously it is always good to discuss those. However, if people don't engage on specific points, there is no sensible debate and the exchange becomes fairly pointless. Hopefully there are no genuine adversaries here, however in general, looking at the Capitol events, the propensity to find adversaries where there are none (if anywhere, they are more likely to be found on the other side of the globe) can get real.
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    Arguably the rational policy would be to defer any $1k+ GPU purchase for now (limited supply + peak demand), unless there is actually a hard requirement behind it, if only to take a stand and send a message to those exploitative manufacturers. Unfortunately, rather than being rational (as some old and naive economic theories used to assume), people tend to be impulse buyers, addiction to new tech is real, as is the herd instinct which prompts people to follow the "upgrade leaders" for fear of missing out. Plus, let's face it: for many people $2k is hardly a prohibitive sum, especially compared to the cost of housing or even cars, and consequently the requisite cash is in many cases basically lying around waiting for NVidia to grab. Additionally, it's easy to rationalize the cost away by comparing it to irrelevant reference points such as last year's crypto boom prices ($2k for a 4090 is only a great deal if you have a time machine which you can use to take the device back to 2021 and sell it for $4k), or by factoring in meaningless in this context generic inflation numbers. NVidia knows all this very well, they don't make those pricing decisions on a whim, but based on a wealth of historical data regarding consumer behaviour. Unlike the consumers, they are very rational and are just ruthlessly using the data and their dominant position to optimally exploit the by and large helpless market.
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    This time I watched for a few minutes and left with noticeable aftertaste of fake news. There is a snippet of a Telegraph article which states that the Dutch government is planning to buy up land (mostly farms) around nature preservation areas and in order to reduce nitrogen pollution. OK, fine, then the commentary includes statements such as: * Unelected officials are closing up farms - it's the Dutch government, very much elected, the dude doesn't understand how the EU works * This is WEF agenda - sounds like a reach, even if someone does something which WEF also sees as desirable, it does not automatically make them WEF minions, you would need to provide concrete evidence of how the WEF directly affected the policy (I'm not a fan of WEF BTW, but let's be reasonable) * Europe will run out of food because of this - the no. 1 reason of potential food issues in Europe would be the Russian invasion and devastation of Ukraine, which is mostly farmlands. Europe actually has pretty strong agriculture thanks to EU subsidies aimed at securing food independence. Disappointing stuff. To be fair, there was a good point or two: Europe did get caught out by its reckless dependency on Russian gas, and indeed the closures of nuclear power plants in Germany (a knee-jerk reaction to the Fukushima disaster) don't look like great policy at the moment.
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    That's standard commie playbook, they have been suppressing real numbers from the beginning. BTW Highly recommend watching "Chernobyl" miniseries.
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    You may be giving them too much credit for sense of humour. The other "predictions" were most likely crude propaganda aimed at propping up the spirits among internal audience. For us those were idiotically funny, but I am certain they were taken literally or as "best case scenarios" by many at home. As for the Musk prediction (obviously stupid, as he was not born a US citizen): given that - despite the absurdity - Russia would definitely love to see the other predictions become reality, it seems like they are liking him, probably due to all the support for the right-wing in the US (which Russia in turn strongly supports on both sides of the pond, all the while calling Ukrainians "the Nazis"...). Apparently, Musk tried to row back from the "Epic thread" comment by claiming it was sarcasm due Medvedev not having taken the recent progress in AI into account. I guess he was trying to turn this into a bit of a banter, so best case scenario here is Elon and Putin's henchman having a bid of laugh together on Twitter. Yeah, absolutely epic.
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    Putin's stooge predicts EU and US will blow up, Elon will become US President - Musk responds "Epic thread" What a cesspool.
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    Just a planning exercise, although the YTer doesn't seem to understand that (unless it's some sort of covertly satirical channel). Well, covid is no joke, and given we are pretty sure where it came from, it's reasonable to expect more, and better pathogens to follow (e.g. I imagine they would be looking a DNA targeting capability, as this one kind of misfired at home lol). How do we prepare for that? I am not sure. Almost went bankrupt last time. There is no testing in Africa, therefore no covid (apart from the SA where two major variants originated from).
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    My understanding is that cutting out processed foods (processed carbs in particular) yields the most benefit. The source of meat is clearly important as well - should be grass-fed and not laden with antibiotics and other meds (easier said than done/verified). Then comes diet composition.
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    Sorry to hear. Obviously don't know what's going on in your case (sounds like some autoimmune/inflammatory condition), but what's going on more broadly is that the food industry is slowly killing people and getting away with it. Worth reviewing your diet if you haven't already.
  25. Etern4l
    The current GPU prices still being elevated has nothing to do with crypto. If anything, miners selling their GPUs have been driving prices down. It has to do with silicon shortages (tsmcdicks, autodicks, aidicks), as well as scalperdicks and of course nvidiadicks :)
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