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.
I’m likely never buying one, but more competition is good. It’ll bring prices down because some people won’t care.
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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
They are extremely hostile to open source.
Probably them investing mostly in AI hardware nowadays (not sure what %) is the reason
They should try entering the desktop GPU market.
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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
I don’t think it should even be comparable between totally different architectures.
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.
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’d take one of those. My P4 is only 3.0 GHz.
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.
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 😒🖕
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 I’ll ever purchase anything made by NVIDIA
I mean if it’s 2nd hand… and the free (libre) drivers are good… and AMD hasn’t gone full Intel… maybe??
Does it work without ram?
Edit- removed “and”
Don’t worry. It will only be used for ai data centers.
Probably, of you throw enpugh cache at it. 😅
4D V-cache!
I’m not buying this news, and if I’m wrong I’m not buying the product. Fuck Nvidia
Good, I won’t be buying them either.
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.
Let me guess, it won’t work with Linux once so ever without a propetairy nvidia kernel
Yeah, but, it’s Nvidia, the same company who’s a key figure on the AI-Govt circlejerk.
The absolute best thing we can do is boycott them AND OpenAI, because neither company gives a F about the People.
While Huang and Nvidia continue their current trajectory, I’ll never buy another Nvidia product.
Yeah, seriously. Nvidia is too busy fucking over the consumer PC market to be interested to produce a CPU that’d sell in that same market. My bet is that any CPU they release would be targeted at cloud/AI as well.
Absolutely.
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
I don’t see where this beats a comparable latest M-series chip.
Anyone beating Apple at this game would be significant news even if it consumes 25x the power.
There’s probably a reason why Apple or any offering thereof has zero mention here.
Fuck that company
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.
If you think China is consumers’ friend, think otherwise.
Can’t wait to install a 5GB driver bundle for my CPU that leaves shit all over the place. No thanks.
Yeah I think I’d rather stick a CPU up my ass then use a Nvidia CPU an any computer I own.
