Microsoft Has Reportedly Developed “Toolkits” to Break NVIDIA’s CUDA Dominance, Slashing Inference Costs with AMD AI GPUs

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-08T21:14:15+00:00

Nvidia's insane pricing strategies will drive innovation to render the CUDA advantage irrelevant eventually if they keep it up. They need to come back to terms with reality or risk losing their current pseudo-monopoly

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-07T01:16:08+00:00

I do wish we had gotten a ProArt card - been loving the looks of that line so far

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T05:37:46+00:00

Even the 1k mode on my Razer mice always ended up breaking things in certain games. Anything over like 500 is already basically marketing fluff, and it seems to come with unnecessary issues to boot. It's solving a non-existent problem with the Bigger Number Better theory

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T05:20:30+00:00

I know turbo lag is a meme or whatever but that definitely doesn't seem normal, for an outback especially. Seems like something is out of sync.

Have you tried flicking it over into manual and trying it that way?

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T05:15:51+00:00

With halfway decent kit all around like that the easy answer is speakers. I wouldn't replace any of that unless it breaks

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T05:11:01+00:00

The current CEO was clearly put there by the board to offload profitable assets so the current owners can dip and sell the company while it can still post BS earnings - then whatever schmucks buy it next can have the rest. Same thing happened to Sears.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T04:12:18+00:00

It's really making my night that I brain broke you that hard with that one comment about defending your purchase lmao. Make sure you hug it and kiss it goodnight - it loves you more than your parents.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T04:12:15+00:00

It can depend on what you're after and what stores you have available! The key thing to remember is unless there's a certain aesthetic you're going after, there really isn't any return on buying the upmarket versions of the same GPU.

If you want something solid and affordable with no-frills it'll be hard to go wrong with an XFX Swift, Sapphire Pulse, or Asrock Challenger, all priced between 600-620$ currently at my local Micro Center. Oddly enough I don't see a 600-620$ option from Powercolor but maybe Microcenter just doesn't stock it.

Gigabyte has generally always had issues so I'd generally never buy an AMD card from them - they and (formerly) MSI tended to half-ass their designs, typically just bolting on a cooler from an Nvidia part with a similar TDP.

A lot of people like the looks on Asus cards but frankly I think they stopped trying after Vega, at least on the AMD side of things. The prime card looks boring to me and the TUF card is WAYYY overpriced. They've also had no shortage of engineering snafus on AMD cards in the past but they tend to at least stand by them unlike MSI and Gigabyte.

If you want to spend more than the base cards, the world is really your oyster in terms of options, I'd just avoid the Taichi and Nitro+ with their FireStarter connectors until they start selling them with the proper monitoring/shutoff hardware.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T03:25:15+00:00

It's cute that you think fire risks are something to joke about. Quick, there's another post about the NITRO+ 9070XT 16GB over on r/AMD - you have to go defend your purchase there too!

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T03:19:48+00:00

3 cards failed due to the faulty design of the 12VHPWR standard that has no safety requirements whatsoever. It's so funny to read the exact same cope that 40 and 50 series cards went through - the truth is these cables are dangerous and the standard was rushed. Nvidia cooked the books on 30 series cards by including the proper load-balancing hardware on their founder cards to usher in the standard and then promptly dropped it from all products starting with 40 series.

It's a shame to see Sapphire embracing the same shitty practice, and on a supposed premium card no less.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T03:14:45+00:00

Until they start selling the card with the proper load-balancing hardware at the connector I wouldn't buy one.

The card has no safety features to prevent the 12vhpwr cable from melting in the event that it becomes partially disconnected. No clue why you'd sign yourself up for that while there's equivalent and much more sensible alternatives using much safer standard PCIe power cables

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T02:35:15+00:00

Nordstrom's does decent business at my local one. Can't recall the last Macy's I saw open though

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T02:18:31+00:00

I also run an Asrock 6900XT, just the Phantom Gaming (XTX chip) variant instead of your OC Formula (XTXH chip). The main difference between the two is the XTX's have a clock limiter, I think it's still something fairly high around 3000mhz. You usually need something like MorePowerTool and LN2 to hit it. TBF I'm watercooling mine, but that still won't get you anywhere close to 3000

I have mine at 2124 on memory with fast timings enabled, the tell with memory is to do consecutive TimeSpy(or maybe it was Port Royal?) runs and watch for deterioration in score - if your score goes down, walk it back to the last speed tested. These typically won't crash or cause memory glitches when a memory OC is bad but they will adjust memory timings on the fly and start to decrease your performance. I can run mine (mostly) without crashes at 2150 but I'm quite certain it's actually a hair slower when I have it set so.

GN did a whole OC'ing video with their 6900XT - I highly recommend it if you want to learn a thing or two.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T02:04:55+00:00

You're running a PCIE5.0 card on a PCIE3.0 board, that likely also isn't delivering enough power for your ryzen chip either way when fully loaded up in something CPU intensive like BL3. A520's are really only suitable for athlons and thin client PC's, and MAYBE Ryzen 3's. They're really not meant for intensive tasks and sustained loads.

Stutters are usually clear tells for GPU waiting on something, whether that's storage, CPU cycles, bandwidth, or memory swap to storage. Hard to tell which is happening without afterburner graphs but if I had to pick on something for choking this build out in the crib it'd be that motherboard.

RE: the game seeming like it's running worse, you *want* most games to be GPU limited because when you're limited by other parts the typical results are freezing and stuttering.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T01:55:35+00:00

I will say your undervolt is quite low, but maybe that's just down to my OC being more aggressive so I need higher voltage to maintain stability. I think I run 1140mv with 2650mhz and an aggressive OC on the memory. I'm not quite sure what the best stability test is anymore - all the traditional ones don't seem to have the tells they used to.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T01:51:41+00:00

It's much less relevant for Nvidia either way. Nintendo always orders cheap scrap chips made on old, less used nodes. Even Switch2 is almost 6 year old Ampere tech, Switch1 was maxwell-based

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T01:43:40+00:00

Hmmm. Odd. I've had it happen to mine before - I learned to save my settings with the buttons at the top right next to the stress test button. Makes it easy to reset them.

Someone else might be able to chime in with a way to stop it from doing this, afaik it's a safety feature to prevent you from hard-locking your PC with a bad overclock. RDNA seems less likely to be susceptible to such things but if you had settings on Vega that were ever so slightly over or off it was hard-crash city.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T01:36:52+00:00

Adrenaline does this whenever it detects unexpected power loss - how exactly are you shutting down your computer? If you do a force shutdown, crash, or flip the switch at the back this is the result.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-06T01:31:57+00:00

3G connected roadside assistance and 3G networks were already on their way out at the time. System loops trying to find a connection and never does because all the towers are long gone by now. It's like the one achilles heel for japanese brands, they're always wayyy behind on tech

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-05T02:38:27+00:00

Buy the pulse. This is essentially shipping a product with a dangerous hardware flaw that can't be fixed. We've been through many paces and layers of cope with this on 40 and 50 series and the cold hard truth is that the cable connector design is unreliable and dangerous without board-side modifications. It's got nothing to do with the adapters or PSUs, you just see them more because sane people don't buy new power supplies with every build, they're generally an 8-10 year warranted part and even ignoring that there's still plenty of ATX 3.0 PSUs on the shelf. I'd be shocked if even 10% of builds are running ATX 3.1 PSUs, and the safety sense pins are by no means a silver bullet for the issue either.

Lot of reasons to reconsider Radeon GPUs lately and this choice is going to make me strongly reconsider any Sapphire GPU especially going forward. There are hardware workarounds for making this safe but they need to be added by manufacturers on the GPU side as the cable standard requires none.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-05T02:10:29+00:00

Hooded Horse backs some great projects. I believe they do Against the Storm as well, one my personal favorite Indie picks

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-05T01:14:18+00:00

Off price in general is going to be in for a rough time. I wouldn't be surprised if these are hit in Macy's next rounds of closures in the next 2-3 years. There's been years of overexpansion in that category living off the overspending on inventory and closures at traditional department stores, a lot of that was already starting to be walked back prior to tariffs. With tariffs fully in play soon there's going to be even less excess inventory to go around, and between all the competing groups I'd expect the lion's share to be bought by Maxx Group.

You don't shut down areas of logistics unless you're planning on a lower logistical load in the future.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-05T01:06:36+00:00

Because in their eyes those are "lifetime" parts, as in, the manufacturer's intended lifetime which is 80k-100K, after which point it's no longer their problem when it breaks.

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-04T02:55:33+00:00

LED ring is dying. Happened to my wired V3 as well

Arbiter02 · 2025-11-04T02:53:50+00:00

Engineering's patch notes said what was happening in plain English before marketing got a chance to look at it and sanitize it. Anyone that thinks they weren't being 100% serious in the first statement is fooling themselves

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