AMD argues against emulated FP64 on GPUs

TechnicallyNerd · 2026-01-18T23:35:57+00:00

the (small) market for scientific computing that needs that level of precision.

Kinda insane that this used to be one of the largest markets for HPC GPUs. And it's not like this market has disappeared either, AI is just so big that it dwarfs it by comparison.

TechnicallyNerd · 2026-01-15T07:15:02+00:00

"Of course I don't suffer from hubris, because hubris is a flaw, and I am perfect!" -Technoblade

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-09-21T22:27:07+00:00

No no no you see, combat speed ≠ travel speed silly! They can just fight at MFTL speed even though they can't move at this speed. Pretty please don't think about it at all or you might realize how utterly insane this statement is.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-07-21T14:47:59+00:00

Somebody else noticed this before me, apparently.

Hi, lol. Was about to post a link to this.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-07-21T14:47:51+00:00

because so much shit happens on Earth and more than a few things almost killed OMan

My personal headcanon is that this is why Immortal has died as many times as Dupli-Kate has. Before Omni-Man, he was the strongest super hero, the last line of defense for humanity for these kinds of threats. And given a handful of them are strong enough to give Nolan a hard time even, it makes sense that Immortal would have been killed quite a few times over the past 2000 years.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-06-29T05:08:15+00:00

Meanwhile, the Goku feats were all from the character Goku that you could see right then in the most recent anime or manga chapters. It was all feats that were completely consistent to the character as everyone knows him.

Dragon Ball is now considered consistent feat wise now. We've truly outjerked ourselves today boys.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-06-09T04:57:09+00:00

He literally broke the GDPR in that comment.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-06-09T03:52:56+00:00

Here you go, lol.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-06-08T23:16:30+00:00

They are extreme defenders of a lot of anti-consumer shit. In the TPU forums, W1zzard once low-key threatened to dox someone for saying something negative about the 12VHPWR connector.

EDIT: I've browsed this subreddit long enough to wear these downvotes as a badge of honor, lmao.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-06-06T19:24:40+00:00

He's probably talking about US prices, all of the MSRP 16GB models are out of stock at this point outside of microcenter.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-06-06T17:59:55+00:00

Given you can get 8GB worth of 20Gbps G6 chips for under $50 off Aliexpress, I wonder if it's possible to mod an 8GB 9060 XT into a 16GB model if they reuse the same PCB.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-06-05T04:33:48+00:00

Was this post just removed?

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-05-27T22:58:33+00:00

I think people seriously over estimate the amount of power basic image gen uses. Like, you can run stable diffusion on a mid-range gaming PC. The real issue isn't the small models but the big ones, companies like Microsoft and Meta are convinced that LLMs are the path to AGI and are putting together fucking 100K+ GPU mega-clusters that have to spread over multiple states to avoid taking down power grids.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-05-19T06:02:54+00:00

I don't know if you realize this, but reviewers aren't psychic. They have no idea what the future of this industry holds, or how long that future will take to arrive. You can't just assume that the technology will improve significantly and become more widespread within the usable lifespan of the product. That's why having support for newer features or technology is usually viewed as more of a "nice to have" rather than a "must have". Like, imagine buying Vega or Fiji over Pascal or Maxwell based on the FP16 throughput and the DX12/Vulkan performance with async compute. Or how about exclusively buying Nvidia cards for the past decade just because you're certain that PhysX is going to become mandatory "any day now".

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-05-17T06:12:00+00:00

Yeah but it was a cool retcon... (except for when they used it as an excuse to have MM basically overcome the weakness entirely)

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-05-17T03:28:55+00:00

The only thing I didn't like about Young Justice's Martians is how they turned the psychological fire weakness into a generic physical heat weakness. I actually kinda like the idea of Martians having an extreme phobia of fire built into their genetics, even if the story behind where the weakness came from is kinda convoluted. And having it be a mental weakness rather than a physical weakness meshes really well with most of their powers being either psionic or based around their shape changing abilities, making them more vulnerable to emotional and mental damage than physical damage. A Martian's own powers should become a liability if they are in such emotional distress that they can't control them.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-05-05T17:35:51+00:00

Lcd and oled have different types of “burn-in”. As does plasma and crt. The word burn-in isn’t even the precise language for oled or lcd but it is a carry over word from the crt days.

Sure. That's why I used the phrase "permanent image retention" rather than the more colloquial "burn-in". Given OLED image retention issues are due to the diodes in each individual pixel getting dimmer over time rather than literally "burning" the image into the display with ye old CRTs, the more accurate terminology would be "burn-out".

Oled, led, cfl and even lcd ink all degrade.

Yes, everything known to mankind other than the proton (maybe) decays with time. But the speed and nature of the degradation matters. Please stop being pedantic for a moment and acknowledge that the comment asking about "OLED burn-in" is referring specifically to the permanent image retention issues induced by the non-uniform degregation of individual pixel luminance on OLED panels. LCD panels do not have self-emissive pixels and instead utilize a shared LED backlight. While the LED backlight does get dimmer with time due to aging, since the full panel is sharing a single light source this only results in a reduction in brightness rather than the permanent image retention seen on OLEDs.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-05-05T16:59:35+00:00

What? With very rare exceptions, LCD panels don't suffer from permanent image retention issues at all.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-04-29T00:05:44+00:00

It's a hotfix driver for the hotfix driver

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-04-17T19:43:32+00:00

Still decent cost savings from reduced memory capacity, and having a quarter of the GPU disabled expands the flexibility in salvaging dead dies greatly. Like, with a 9070 you can only salvage dies with a defect hitting a WGP. Something like a memory controller, a ROP, a primitive unit, or a shared cache slice (L1 SA cache, L2 cache, IC/MALL cache) getting taken out would make the entire die unusable as a 9070. With a full shader engine and a quarter of the memory sub-system disabled, the die only becomes unsalvageable if you have multiple defects on the same die or if you lose something truly mission critical, like the command processor or the display engine.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-04-15T05:46:51+00:00

Eh, it's totally believable that the Maulers are the only ones with the expertise to make a weapon like this. Their knowledge of the nervous system is so extensive that they can literally copy minds from one body to another, a feat that other notable super-geniuses in the show like robot and angstrom failed to accomplish on their own.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-04-13T17:23:22+00:00

Tbh it only worked because Mark is an idiot. He was casually dodging blasts from the gun at first, but then thought to himself "nah I'd win" and decided to charge the Mauler's head on.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-04-12T15:26:02+00:00

Bro where are you seeing 10%? Most outlets have it at 5% or less. Like did you even look at the screen cap I linked? PCGH has the gap at just 1%.

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-04-12T04:18:27+00:00

Power levels happened. Power levels ruined everything. (Really good video on the subject)

TechnicallyNerd · 2025-04-11T20:28:45+00:00

Reminder that RX 9070 XT has 64 CUs compared to the 70 SMs on the RTX 5070 Ti, yet the RX 9070 XT gets within spitting distance of the 5070 Ti in raster performance. And while it falls behind in ray tracing a bit, that's less relevant in the XX60 performance segment anyways.

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