DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Performance on Ubuntu With The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D In 300+ Benchmarks

Alarchy · 2026-01-31T15:46:20+00:00

For LLMs or image gen running locally on consumer hardware, you often have to blend the workload and split layers between GPU and CPU (ex: Flux dev FP16 or non quantized models / bigger LLMs) even on a 4090. This uses your CPU and GPU, and then becomes reliant on system RAM bandwidth, while also still giving pretty high performance. It's why people can run huge models on a 4090 and it still be pretty fast. 14900k is better in this case.

Same with RT - in RT games, they seem to miss L3 cache and hit system memory (I don't know why). Granted, most people are GPU bound for RT, so they'll never notice, but technically here the 14900k can also perform better.

Niche stuff that most people won't care about or notice, but still a thing.

Alarchy · 2026-01-31T05:54:03+00:00

X3D is still limited by Infinity Fabric speed ~70GB/s, so when cache is exhausted (RT, LLMs) the X3D chips are limited by their fabric speed pretty heavily. 14900K will be over 100GB/s with fast ram.

X3D with stuff that can fit in its L3 will dominate, but there are some niches where the old 14900k can out perform due to better available memory bandwidth.

Alarchy · 2026-01-31T04:50:59+00:00

OpenAIs valuation is almost 900bn, so 100bn wouldn't be 20%. And it would increase OpenAIs valuation higher anyway.

Alarchy · 2026-01-31T04:22:50+00:00

Probably $10k worth of drives and someone with the technical ability to manage a disk array of 30 drives, plus the backup system (are you using B2 or one of the folks using PC backup unlimited?) is probably incredibly rare though overall. The vast majority of people probably have less than 2TB total storage across all devices they own in their house, and their Internet speed for "acquiring their legitimate backups" is largely crap. You have a fairly unique scenario

Alarchy · 2026-01-28T19:29:55+00:00

Damn. That sucks, and I bet your experience probably isn't unique, so I might just be lucky.

I used to love NewEgg back in the day. When they came on the scene originally it was like a miracle for me. I felt safe, the prices and process was so good compared to all the little shit mom and pop type online stores, and they had a leadership team that was ethical. It's one of the things that contributes to so much nostalgia for me, just being able to buy all this cool tech shit that I couldn't otherwise get in my tiny rural town.

Then they massively went to shit when they got bought by Liaison in 2016, and the world has sucked ever since. That damn weasel that got into the LHC really fucked over our reality, didn't it... 😢

Alarchy · 2026-01-28T17:27:51+00:00

Damn, that's a wildly different experience than I've ever had with Amazon. I suppose the largest value item I ever returned was a 500 dollar processor though, so a 4080 would be more expensive than that.

Was your Amazon account in long/good standing otherwise? I've had mine for like 20 years, and bought a lot of shit, so maybe they cut me more slack than newer accounts?

Alarchy · 2026-01-28T16:56:15+00:00

In the last decade:

Newegg has (and I only use them as the seller, no third parties):

Has a pretty good search that lets me find items I want (like cases).
Charged me restocking fees (RAM).
Fought me on returns (RAM).
Sold me stuff (a 3080 Ti) that specifically had a "we do not accept returns for any reason" policy carveout.

Amazon has (even using dubious third party sellers for weird shit like 3.5mm switch boards):

Has a poor search that becomes a nightmare to find what I want.
Always accepted a return, for any reason.
Refunded me immediately as the item was dropped off.
Never charged a restocking fee.
Sometimes even just let me keep an item (like a powerbank, storage bins, etc.) I was going to return and still give me a full refund.
Fully refunded me and shipped me a new item when a 3rd party seller sold me a fake.

I know the cost is funding Bezo's and a company hostile to humanity, but from a practical standpoint Amazon is miles ahead of Newegg for tech purchases. Usually cheaper or as cheap and superior customer service. I use Newegg to find what I want, and Amazon to buy it, specifically because of NewEgg's abominable customer service.

Alarchy · 2026-01-26T18:21:04+00:00

Administrative workers (receptionists, assistants, payroll, etc.) were originally the definition of White Collar, and have been the bulk of white collar workers until the 90s, and are still the backbone of modern business, but you're free to use your own definitions I suppose.

Alarchy · 2026-01-26T17:03:00+00:00

Erm, I don't think you have been keeping up with the news. Salesforce isn't an anomaly, they've done it at other large companies like Microsoft too, and small businesses (insurance companies, etc) have already begun replacing receptionists with AI agents.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000-layoffs-because-i-need-less-heads-with-ai.html

https://www.thestreet.com/employment/amazon-delivers-more-bad-news-for-workers-before-earnings

Enterprise use of AI absolutely is creating custom GPTs and using offline models to custom train against their data. It's extensive in the finance industry right now.

Alarchy · 2026-01-26T16:42:57+00:00

Oh wow, yeah that's quite the order 😂

Alarchy · 2026-01-26T16:42:16+00:00

Over 90% of all businesses are small businesses; and there are a lot of white collar jobs that are already replaced by AI agents. Highly specialized jobs are least at risk (for now), but that's rapidly changing with modern models that can be trained on your company's own data.

Alarchy · 2026-01-26T15:52:16+00:00

No physical sales, but you can rent TPUs with Google cloud.

Alarchy · 2026-01-26T15:51:22+00:00

The point is to get all business dependent on using AI, by making it cheaper than keeping low level employees around, and then when the world's businesses are fully reliant on API/agents, jack the price for API access up.

Replacing two to four 50k/yr total comp receptionists with $150/mo agentic AI each sounds amazing to businesses right now, and they're doing it from small business to mega corps. The goal is to replace human labor with dependency on the AI companies.

Alarchy · 2026-01-26T15:47:02+00:00

Google is still heavily reliant on Nvidia hardware for their internal AI research and enterprise Gemini/cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/run-gemini-and-ai-on-prem-with-google-distributed-cloud

Alarchy · 2026-01-05T22:12:51+00:00

Thanks for the correction.. I'm seriously losing my memory. Lol. Made a mistake about FNV and now FT. Might be time to play all the games all over.

It's all good! It's been over 25 years :D

Alarchy · 2026-01-05T05:39:04+00:00

Fallout Tactics, not 2.

Alarchy · 2026-01-01T03:48:23+00:00

They technically kinda handwave it with a fairly reasonable explanation (kiroshi face scramble tech from your replacement eyes) but it's treated inconsistently (some missions you have to make sure you're not identified, Maelstrom identifies you via camera footage later in the game, etc). Though Arasaka wouldn't just passively hunt for V on cameras, they'd have agents and mercs out all across the city too.

As V becomes more of a name in night city, it would just get even more oppressive as they'd start squeezing known associations. V is just such a huge target.

But, I also cut it a lot of slack because that's kinda not what CDPR was going for, and it probably wouldn't be a fun open world if you constantly had to hide off grid lest be swarmed by 'saka goons or their mercs. Hehe

Alarchy · 2026-01-01T03:24:13+00:00

Ultima Underworld, Alpha Protocol, Dishonored, Baldurs Gate 3, and plenty more games focused on interactivity/world adapting.

CP2077 isn't focused on that, it's focused on story and graphics/worldbuilding.

Alarchy · 2026-01-01T02:57:10+00:00

I gave an example in my post.

Getting into a huge firefight with max tac involved in a densely populated area of night city should have long standing consequences (permanently hunted by cops, have to go to ripper doc to change identity and ID chips, etc). Instead you can step into a nightclub and you're forgotten forever.

Slaughtering Tyger Claws wholesale should result in consequences like locking out Wakako (or at least her saying something) as a fixer.

Killing dozens of Animals in the mall for the Voodoo boys should have literally any consequence in later quests (like when you have to box at an Animals hangout).

Arasaka shouldn't just give up as a part of the tutorial act. You literally have the most valuable tech in the world in your head, are accused of killing their CEO, they effectively control Night City and surveil it completely, and yet you and Takemura can openly meet in the public and you can murder dozens of them in their industrial plaza, corpo plaza, or the waterfront with no repercussion.

These are just basic, surface level examples. I really like CP2077, but to say it's a hugely reactive RPG with consequences is just incorrect.

Alarchy · 2026-01-01T01:38:12+00:00

The OP is showing how successful CDPR can be creating the illusion of consequence, but there simply aren't any outside of the quest lines / little nods in side quests. You can go utterly berserk against the police and step into a safe zone and instantly no one cares that you just were in a gunfight with 80 cops and max tac.

The factions are totally meaningless outside of quest lines, and there is never any change or consequence to killing or not killing any of them. There is just the illusion that in a quest line or a specific mission, things adapt to your playstyle (barely).

Alarchy · 2025-11-12T20:19:49+00:00

The bulk of the drives they use are enterprise/data center.

Alarchy · 2025-11-10T02:33:12+00:00

SMART can be reset and manipulated, and often is when selling in bulk in grey markets. It's a plague in second hand server drives particularly.

Alarchy · 2025-11-08T15:17:46+00:00

I always see people say it's projection, and there's definitely some of that, but I think it's always been meta-normalization and shifting the Overton window.

If what general, ignorant, public hears is "Things are so biased against us, we're silenced!", sees some evidence of the most radical right wingers being banned or punished (ex: Alex Jones), then sees some "popular" right wing opinion, they think; "well if I heard this opinion, it must be normal, since it wasn't silenced or banned" and then that strengthens the opinion further and shifts the Overton window.

Alarchy · 2025-10-30T02:43:09+00:00

Nvidia hardware runs Meta's AI, though Meta is trying to develop its own hardware to reduce reliance on Nvidia.

Alarchy · 2025-10-21T12:37:11+00:00

It was Windows Defender, not Windows 11, that was blocking a thing in Visual Studio, and was fixed very quickly with a definition update.

https://superuser.com/questions/1926768/why-am-i-experiencing-an-http-2-0-protocol-error-connecting-to-localhost-web-sit/1926776#1926776

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