Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 days agoAre you trying to claim there’s something “special” about this CPU like the PS3’s cell processor?
There is. It’s a 16-core desktop CPU kinda like Ryzen, but hooked up to an IO die with very fast (8533MHz) quad channel memory. It’s more like a small, power efficient threadripper CPU, if you want to look at it that way.
But that IO die has a 40 CU GPU (compared to 12 for the previous highest end IGP, or 8 for the Steam Deck), so yeah, somewhere in the ballpark of a 4070. Or maybe the 4060 at the lower end of SKUs.
But the real appeal isn’t “magic”: its like an Apple M Pro or Mac, a decent GPU hooked up to a huge pool of VRAM without having to pay freaking $4000+ for a Quadro or A100.
I’d buy it at the drop of a hat for workstation stuff. I also have some friends who want one as a home server, since it’s so powerful but power efficient, and more modular/repairable than some Chinese mini PC.
commander@lemmings.world 3 days ago
For $2000, you and your friends could be getting better hardware.
I’m sorry, this is a product for suckers. Anyone who buys this has more money than sense. It’s just a fact of life.
It’s okay if you don’t realize this now, but hopefully one day you will. It’s alright to be wrong and taken for a ride. We’ve all been there, including me. It’s part of why I’m so keen on identifying bullshit like this now; I’ve seen it before and will continue to see it again.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There’s literally no better hardware. If I want 48Gb+ vram for $2000, it’s literally a bank of ancient, power sucking Tesla P40s or this… there’s nothing else because Nvidia/AMD processors gouge everything else. Heck, the used 24GB 3090 I bought has skyrocketed in price. I’d still be paying like $1500 for a bare minimum system.
I’d love to be wrong, but the GPU market is totally fucked.
commander@lemmings.world 3 days ago
I think you’re deluding yourself into thinking this GPU is more powerful than it actually is.
Have you seen benchmarks comparing it to some of the competition?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Honestly I don’t even care if it’s half as fast as a 4070, that’s fast enough for me.
In workstation workloads, some stuff just will not run unless you have a ton of VRAM, and running slower is fine. Or in other cases, you get a gigantic speedup from the virtue of simply having tons of VRAM. That’s the value, not pure core speed compared to some 8GB GPU.
But I am not deluding myself, the core performance is in the ballpark of a laptop 7700S: notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-8060S-Benchmarks-…