Could they please make cheap ram?
This is more about the Arm X925 core than about Nvidia. The X925 is a new superscalar ARM core that’s the first one competitive with current x64 at single threaded compute.
Apple M-series are ARM64. Are they not competitive?
They get fairly close from what I understand. But while they are more power efficient, they’re still behind in pure speed. The X925 goes for speed at the cost of power, at least per this:
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-cortex-x925-reaching-desktop
Doesn’t render.
It’s the monopoly man announcing that Nvidia is effectively a monopoly.
A lot of companies could do stuff. We know it’d all go to AI slop anyway, so whatever.
I will not buy another nvidia retail product again. Could make an exception for a second hand shield from an earlier generation, but nvidia is dead to me. AMD is my new best friend.
AMD is still trying to get in on the AI cash pile. The only thing they have going for them is pretty solid Linux support. I still pick them over nvidia and intel, they just aren’t much better than the others when it comes to “consumer first” ideologies
I’m a fickle mistress and sadly also a captured audience so totally expect to hate them one day… for now it plays mhwilds hi res on ultra great on garuda.
If it ever becomes the standard desktop processor, they’ll pull the rug like they have with graphics processors and push everything to AI datacenters.
Hard pass
Good, I won’t be buying them either.
so… they have spare production capacity then?
I am literally just waiting for China to catch up and knock over all 3 of these TSMC suckers.
I don’t care if they throw a 2000% tarrif on it, I will figure out a way to bypass it so I can enjoy pre inflation PC prices again when high end GPUs were going for $300, SSDs became so cheap that the HDD market actually started falling behind, and you could chuck RAM sticks around like spare change.
It would be nice to see hardware smugglers.
If the tariffs last, emergence of some smugglers is unavoidable.
Add to that that they would be tracked by Kash Patel’s ruined FBI, and the risk assessment is even more in favor of smuggling.
well they start making decent drivers for linux or will they suck ass like they do now
The tegra boards are good on Linux. They need to get this out so software developers can work out the software kinks and hardware integrators make some good designs. I want a whole lot more Steam Machine sized devices to choose from
No, they don’t. Fuck them and everything they stand fkr.
Does it work and without ram?
Don’t worry. It will only be used for ai data centers.
Probably, of you throw enpugh cache at it. 😅
clock speed of 4GHz, which is far below AMD and Intel’s 5GHz.
phrasing is odd. 25% lower clock speed isnt “far below”
but also fuck nvidia
You willing to take a 25% pay cut? Yeah that’s hella far. Especially when you’re up in the GHz range.
I don’t think it should even be comparable between totally different architectures.
I can’t believe people still look at Hz and think it’s a sole metric that can be used for performance.
Do you think they look at the 2005 Pentium 4’s 3.8GHz and assume it’s only slightly worse than what Nvidia will put on the market?
I’m hopeful ARM will follow more the licensing path than the going full Android path. I think stronger ARM computers, built at the ISA level by any company are also stronger RISCV computers. Builders like Rockchip (China) show that ARM and RISCV computers will bring alternatives to people, possibly with smaller fabs or on demand.
Truly open/libre systems will have to be RISCV. They don’t have to be the fastest.
Yeah, we’ve been through this exact same game with multiple iterations of Intel and AMD chips. When AMD first started doing consumer CPUs they badged them according to their equivalent Intel clock speed because one to one comparisons were misleading.
What’s the L1 and L2 cache? What are the bus speeds? How many cores and how are they architectured? Multi-threading? How many steps is the instruction cycle? There are so many factors beyond just clock speed that play into real world performance.
25% lower clock speed isnt “far below”
AHEM! AKTCHEWALEE… it’s 20% which is even less qualified to be “far below” the other two.
Thanks! Thats more accurate
No worries bud! The wording is still ridiculous…and also fuck Nvidia 😒🖕
Meh, I’m waiting for AMD’s RDNA 5 to be released in 2027 and am hoping for some decent SoCs that are at least comparable to today’s RTX 5080, except without artificially limited VRAM. The current AI Max SoCs are pretty decent, but the RDNA 5 RTX cores are going to be what really makes it worthwhile for me personally, since I do a lot of Blender rendering and gaming.
Do I want another option in the desktop CPU space? YES
Do I want that option to be Nvidia? NOPE
I’m looking forward to the MilkV chipsets that are RISC V architecture. They have like a microATX board that just takes regular computer components and has functioning graphics drivers for AMD. Nothing is optimized for it but its a 64 core CPU if I recall correctly, and its ridiculously low wattage for what it does.
Ditto. RISCV will catch up, eventually, and it’ll be a Chinese company which does it. Most of þe RISCV solutions are Chinese silicon.
What’s wrong with Nvidia? Genuine question
They are extremely hostile to open source.
Probably them investing mostly in AI hardware nowadays (not sure what %) is the reason
they are recently destroying the desktop PC market by selling at overinflated prices, and by being the manufacturer that ends up using all the memory components that’s been removed from the manufacturers of the PC market.
but for a very long time before that, they were making very shitty, buggy, unstable drivers for linux. we might just get to be taught that CPUs also need drivers, so far that just wasn’t a problem because they was just working fine.
Nvidia is just the person selling pickaxes, blame the AI companies for paying insane amounts for memory
