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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can’t see the context because it’s freaking X, but I bet that’s in reference to local ML hosting.

There’s a big movement to get away from corporate AI, and I don’t need to explain the importance of that to the Lemmy crowd. But Nvidia is indeed artificially crippling consumer VRAM to stop them from being used for that too much, and protect their enterprise GPU market.

The most bizzare thing is that AMD is inexplicably complicit even though they have like zero market share in that space. 48GB 7900s (and so on) would have obliterated Nvidia and sold like hotcakes, much less actually using their modular memory controller architecture… But no? They restricted their OEMs from doing that because they… Don’t want money, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AMD is much of a scum as Nvidia is or Intel was, that’s why DeepSeek is something that came from China and you would need a new player completely outside of the current chain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t see how that’s relevant, Deepseek was trained on, and is served on, Nvidia hardware.

And while I don’t disagree about AMD gouging, if AMD was to act like “scum,” they would screw over Nvidia’s pricing strategy.

But… they don’t. And lose for it.

It’s some combination of ignorance, corporate stupidity and straight up collusion, but it’s also the opposite of greed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DeepSeek is just a recent example to the usual Microsoft or Google or Apple aka Nvidia-AMD and now at most Intel. This is not about which GPU can run what.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Deepseek is like an ant compared to OpenAI/Anthropic/Google, and they come from a completely different world, the actually competitive open LLM dev scene with dozens of companies publishing good models. I think this is a bad analogy, as AMD is not that small and new compared to Nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“They come from a completely different world.”

This is what I meant to say, not whether they’re good or bad. In this case, someone else to beat Nvidia then expecting either AMD or Intel (existing players) or even Apple (again, I am aware they don’t sell dedicated GPUs) to break the competition.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

I'll wait for the Julian Assange review.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck is wrong with this timeline.

Do the amish accept atheists?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The real question is whether they accept hypersexual autists.

EDIT: ... unable to exist without Tao Te Ching, thyme tea and a few good soundtracks.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But what does Ja Rule think?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Who cares what Ja Rule thinks? I'm holding out for Busta Rhymes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

An infamous former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower has unexpectedly shared his opinion on the state of the graphics card market.

Man who did big cool thing once also has opinions on unrelated thing, news at 11.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That headline is so stupid that I refuse to read the article

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ha, my sentiment exactly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

What is even this ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Edward Snowdon reads a spec sheet

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

So now we care what Edward Snowden says about vram? We need him to tell us that it should be 24 gigs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You're about 30 years too late, but I'm glad you're finally here

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