Recent content by Halon

If memory serves the A18 Pro has an additional impediment to cooling from the RAM effectively being stacked atop the CPU because of how it’s packaged. The throttling is probably managed pretty well given those constraints - it just isn’t meant to be a sustained high performance solution. It’s...

Diclaimer: happy owner of an M2 MacBook Air who's never wanted it to be more than it is. And the Neo will attempt to do those things with two big cores and four little ones anyway. The math is pretty similar to what the Apple Silicon Airs do with passive cooling. That cooling is usually...

What? You have to type harder, I can barely hear you Seriously, shipping the 5800 Ultra like that said more about Nvidia’s stark terror than anything else could have.

A vintage Radeon 5450 would do the trick, or something like the Radeon 8570s you can find on eBay for literally $10 a pop. That's even GCN-level, though in real world performance terms it'll be like low-end integrated video on an FM2+ CPU.

Bumparoo

Hi there. I'd like to trade my Asus TUF RTX 3070 for a comparable Intel or AMD card. It is a big and beefy boy and reliable, but I'm running Linux and would prefer to switch over to something with uneventful open source support. Let me know what you have. Thanks!

I don’t have one, but a Quadro K2200 could be a solid fit for that. Low profile GTX 750 Ti-equivalent with 4GB RAM, can be found on eBay for around $35 shipped or less. I even got Doom Eternal running on one tolerably well at 720p.

Ahoy. I was recently laid off and would very much like to put a peppier graphics card into the family PC than the Intel Arc A380 currently residing there. Ideal requirements: 8GB RAM, RTX 3050 or higher performance, as cheap as reasonably possible while still being in working order. Let me know...

I have a Sparkle Titan A770 in the original box with accessories. $250 shipped, and it's yours.

The 9700 Pro was a big deal for a number of reasons: - It offered competitive, full-featured DirectX 9.0 support when the API was brand new. Its limitations - FP24 precision, shader model 2.0 support, and others - paled compared to Nvidia's GeForce FX series, which was built on a number of...

It’s quick. Maybe not Mac Studio/MacBook Pro-quick, but the Arcs are fantastic transcoders.

Bump because they’re still great outside of lacking ray tracing. I genuinely don’t know why I sold mine a while back.

I have a 4GB XFX Radeon RX 6500 XT (RDNA2) as well as a 3GB Radeon RX 5300 OEM. Neither is studly but either would be a welcome improvement over a GTX 760. Let me know if you're interested!

For a long time they straight up made MIPS chips. Even the 3A4000 was MIPS64LE through and through. Reading about LoongArch sorta makes my head hurt but it’s essentially MIPS with an infusion of RISC-V conventions and forward-looking ideas, and a ton of new vector processing instructions as well...

I miss the mixture of brute force efficiency and unflinching disregard for aesthetics shown here.