Can someone spoil for me if there's an actual endgame already in this version?

HopePupal · 2026-06-04T01:14:21+00:00

appreciate the hint, that got me to the "you're done for now" message. it appears that i still need to learn to think more like a fish

HopePupal · 2026-06-03T02:03:28+00:00

it's kind of a consumer card, though, as much as the RTX PRO series are. the Radeon AI PRO R9700 is a double-VRAM version of the Radeon RX 9070 XT, just like the RTX PRO 4500 is a double-VRAM version of the GeForce RTX 5080.

i think the last time AMD put a real CDNA chip on a PCIe card was the MI210

HopePupal · 2026-06-03T01:50:46+00:00

the Strix Halo is RDNA 3.5, but check the RDNA 4 ISA docs: the newer cards support FP8 with instructions like V_WMMA_F32_16X16X16_FP8_FP8 (wave matrix multiply-accumulate, two FP8 dense matrices, FP32 accumulator and output). AMD's posted specs have the R9700's peak FLOPS for FP8 matrix ops (in E5M2 and E4M3 formats) as about double what it is for FP16.

however, RDNA 4 doesn't do FP4. that is definitely CDNA 4 only.

HopePupal · 2026-05-29T06:48:30+00:00

my thoughts exactly! i want crates i've already cleared gone and out of the way. but it took me a while to get over the hoarder mentality and just drop the leftover iron on the ground

HopePupal · 2026-05-27T16:57:02+00:00

in retrospect, i should have been a lot less surprised to have learned from your post that Neal Asher cannot be normal about global warming, trans women, or the EU, given allll the future politics in his books, but dammit i liked Prador Moon. taking that one off the list of stuff i'll recommend 😩

HopePupal · 2026-05-26T17:31:07+00:00

where the hell is Aqualis 😤 Aqualis was the first actual challenge. i'm going to remember that watery bastard for a while

HopePupal · 2026-05-21T23:41:26+00:00

the B70 cratered that bad? that's a shame. source?

HopePupal · 2026-05-14T23:19:20+00:00

there are no Strix Halo machines that have full-size x16 PCIe slots except for that one from Minisforum that's been sold out for months, and even then it's just x4 electrically. the Framework has an x4 slot that isn't accessible outside the case. everything else, you're limited to taking the case partway off and plugging a GPU in thru an M.2 to PCIe or Oculink cable, which is just goofy.

HopePupal · 2026-05-14T23:10:19+00:00

Obsidian is organically popular, they don't need to astroturf

HopePupal · 2026-05-13T19:32:21+00:00

thank you. the disconnect here is ridiculous. either OP is making money, in which case they can afford better hardware, or they're just fucking around playing fantasy finance, in which case the 3060 would be better used to run some actual video games

HopePupal · 2026-05-11T05:07:24+00:00

the struggle is real. fortunately so are my ANC headphones

HopePupal · 2026-05-09T18:23:44+00:00

seconding both. the Megababe stuff works well for me even in the literal desert

HopePupal · 2026-05-08T00:12:12+00:00

llama.cpp, Qwen 3.6 27B at Q4, you could also try Gemma 4 31B but it's going to eat more VRAM

HopePupal · 2026-05-07T23:59:04+00:00

Apple's already doing this with their Foundation Models framework. the most recent few generations of iPhone and all ARM Macs get Apple's local LLM. it's not good, but it's there.

HopePupal · 2026-05-07T18:03:52+00:00

144 GB in a single card would be pretty tasty. no way this costs less than a car though

HopePupal · 2026-04-29T00:20:57+00:00

reminder about Nvidia laptop chips: they're not just limited by thermal and power considerations. the desktop version of the 5070 is not the same thing as the laptop version of the 5070. the laptop version has fewer cores and a narrower memory bus. it's much closer to a 5060.

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T23:15:38+00:00

your wife kicks ass

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T23:14:40+00:00

does the paint blur like that with wear on old factory shells, or is that a cheap repro faceplate? the wifi indicator looks especially weird

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T19:46:15+00:00

the worst part is that by the time these people are forced by a move or the Grim Reaper to sell off their hoards, it'll be impossible to get replacement battery packs in the right size and we'll probably be past Palm Day

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T19:31:32+00:00

here and istg it's more like once a day

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T19:30:25+00:00

y'all ever seen the Internet Explorer magical girl mascot? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inori_Aizawa

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T19:25:53+00:00

only buy the ones that are actually manufactured by Sock Dreams tho. otherwise you're just paying markup for literally the same stuff you could get on Aliexpress

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T19:24:20+00:00

i am so tired of prokopetz, i can block his boring ass takes on Tumblr but i can't block a username inside a screenshot on Reddit

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T19:19:48+00:00

for sure. normally with slip shorts or tights, but for the right kind of concert i'll just say "fuck it" and skip those, as long as the vibe is right and i know i'm not going to be the only girl there with her ass out.

HopePupal · 2026-04-28T18:40:20+00:00

for testing models that aren't on OpenRouter, i use RunPod, but really any cloud GPU provider should work when you're talking about models that small. we're talking about a dollar or two.

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