Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC
commander@lemmings.world 3 days agoFor $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-…
commander@lemmings.world 2 days ago
You’re the one who’s trying to argue its power, and then when presented with a better option you say “it’s fast enough for me.”
Have you seen benchmarks comparing the performance of this iGPU to dGPUs?
Please share.