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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc A770 - failed experiment
« on: January 30, 2026, 11:17:30 am »
I don't think anyone has tested it yet, did you end up doing so?
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Discrete GPU demise is inevitable
« on: September 21, 2025, 01:04:20 am »
I wonder how this would affect someone that, say, wanted to license Imagination IP and fab a DXTP-based GPU at an Intel plant. Would Nvidia want Intel to say no? Would that be grounds for an anticompetitive lawsuit, or would Nvidia be in the clear if they're partially owners?
Also, I wonder if Nvidia's goal here is moreso Intel's fabs to try to compete with AMD on price given AMD would still be using TSMC, even if they have to prop them up for more competitive nodes.
I will say, kind of a shame. I'm interested in picking up something ARC for video rendering but it looks like that'll have to stay on Alchemist forever given Battlemage is midtier only and Celestial is put up in the air by this development.
Also, I wonder if Nvidia's goal here is moreso Intel's fabs to try to compete with AMD on price given AMD would still be using TSMC, even if they have to prop them up for more competitive nodes.
I will say, kind of a shame. I'm interested in picking up something ARC for video rendering but it looks like that'll have to stay on Alchemist forever given Battlemage is midtier only and Celestial is put up in the air by this development.
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General CPU Discussion / Re: Buying used hardware: boards, CPUs, fan assemblies
« on: August 31, 2025, 11:10:00 pm »
Is there a time limit on this? Because depending on if the Power11 stuff comes out and if I manage to finally save up the last little bit before then, if it's cheap enough I'll have an 02CY231 to sell that I never quite managed to save up enough for a motherboard for. Wouldn't expect much from it if it ends up being available since I've never been able to test it, but I've been as careful with it as possible so it shouldn't be in any worse shape than when I bought it.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Raptor Call of the Shadows
« on: April 06, 2025, 06:13:19 pm »
Well, that's an appropriately named game.
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.
« on: March 30, 2025, 11:22:59 pm »
Yeah, same here. I think the PowerColor is the option to go for if you're either impatient or just don't have the money for a workstation card, I think W7700 is still a few hundred more used vs. the 9070 XT Reaper at retail price and that's for a card that's not as powerful and has the same amount of memory. W7800, which would be the real equivalent, is easily $1500 minimum used. There's also the 9070 Reaper and Hellhound, both of which are also 40mm, and we'll have to see about the 9060 and 60 XT, I would hope that they wouldn't reuse 340 W coolers for 150 W cards, but honestly, I can't be sure with the hardware industry the way it is.
At least it's PowerColor, a known and generally liked brand that we're stuck with, and not Asus or the like who are definitely known and less so liked, or a brand with neither quality.
As far as I know, there's already support for RDNA4 in amdgpu so it should hopefully be generally good to go, though until someone actually buys one to test it that's gonna be an unknown. Personally, I'm not looking to move on from my RX 570 for at minimum another 6 months, possibly a year. Just whenever the full RDNA4 lineup is out on the market and available reliably at retail price, and couldn't afford to even if I wanted at the moment anyway.
At least it's PowerColor, a known and generally liked brand that we're stuck with, and not Asus or the like who are definitely known and less so liked, or a brand with neither quality.
As far as I know, there's already support for RDNA4 in amdgpu so it should hopefully be generally good to go, though until someone actually buys one to test it that's gonna be an unknown. Personally, I'm not looking to move on from my RX 570 for at minimum another 6 months, possibly a year. Just whenever the full RDNA4 lineup is out on the market and available reliably at retail price, and couldn't afford to even if I wanted at the moment anyway.
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General Discussion / Re: Samsung PRO 980 1TB NVMe is working flawlessly
« on: March 20, 2025, 08:20:23 am »Looking at the history of kernel performance changes in Fedora 37, I get the impression that no one does performance testing before releasing a kernel. The variability is high. It's a shame that Fedora developers don't see this.
I'm using Fedora right now and my impression is they just don't do testing in general, like for example shipping GIMP 3 with no way to go back without shipping one of its dependecies (babl 0.1.112, which looking at the tracker page still isn't released for Fedora).
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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta
« on: March 20, 2025, 08:15:23 am »
Honestly, for daily use, I don't really have a problem with Wayland. I used to have a lot more of them but it seems like there's been a lot of work done to make it a lot more seamless, but I'm also just a desktop user and any server stuff I do probably won't have a GUI running. I just wish there was something as good as TDE for it, Plasma is fine, just not as full featured and robust ime.
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD OpenCL / ROCm
« on: March 19, 2025, 11:36:29 am »My takeaway is that if you want to do reasonably portable GPGPU stuff learn WebGPU/Vulkan compute shaders. You can do also GPGPU stuff with opengles/webgl with "transform feedbacks" but its extremely limited and a total nightmare, speaking from experience.
Now if only the Blender team would do that. I do hear they are for viewport and Eevee, but Cycles depends on HIP if you're not using CUDA or CPU. Though I suppose render times shouldn't be too bad on the CPU in this case...
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc A770 - failed experiment
« on: March 19, 2025, 09:45:05 am »
From what I remember, Intel was pretty touchy at best about non-x86 architectures in general not too long ago, so I never really expected it to work. The fact there's any sort of hope for it is a nice bonus, though.
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.
« on: March 19, 2025, 09:35:05 am »
Yeah, that's the one I would be looking at because it lets me use the x8 slot for an NVMe card. I was wondering if it might have some issues with the lower fan header, I guess let us know if you do get it, but it seems like if the RX 6800 fits (I remember you saying you tried it) it shouldn't be too much of an issue since either one is longer than that header.
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Applications and Porting / XenonRecomp
« on: March 03, 2025, 07:54:20 pm »
It's not for PowerPC (yet(, but this seems like a very interesting project to me. It currently depends on amd64 intrinsics, but a similar project, N64Recomp, doesn't, so I wonder if that's a hard cap. Apparently it's already building games for Linux, so DirectX isn't needed... I'd be interested in this because it'd be some of the most intensive games you could theoretically natively run, and it'd just feel neat to play something that was made for IBM + Radeon on IBM + Radeon.
https://github.com/hedge-dev/XenonRecomp
https://github.com/hedge-dev/XenonRecomp
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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences
« on: February 27, 2025, 05:17:50 pm »
Something to look into: Command and Conquer series open-sourced.
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General CPU Discussion / Has anyone done the Phoronix suite recently?
« on: February 23, 2025, 06:18:10 pm »
I know that the Phoronix suite isn't the best benchmarking suite around, but it's at least an option. I went looking and all I could find were the 2019 results, has anyone done any more recent benchmarks to see how optimized things got in the last 6 years?
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.
« on: February 11, 2025, 07:13:41 pm »https://www.techpowerup.com/332343/sapphire-initiates-radeon-rx-9070-xt-9070-pure-series-marketing-campaign
Edit: apparently not. Nevermind me.
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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?
« on: February 10, 2025, 08:34:11 pm »
I just sent them an email asking about that, they are indeed still in business and do still have stock at the moment.
