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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD OpenCL / ROCm

« Last post by lepidotos 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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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?

« Last post by markr87 on March 19, 2025, 10:04:58 am »

@atomicdog, Can you flash a blank chip in the socket on the MB or will it need to be flashed prior?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc A770 - failed experiment

« Last post by lepidotos 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.

« Last post by lepidotos 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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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by tle on March 19, 2025, 08:27:23 am »

I, unfortunately, said goodbye to the Fedora distribution... I still need X11 and that will not change for a long time. Gnome is getting more and more frustrating from version to version. I went back to simplicity, FreeBSD 14.2 + X11 + Enlightenment 0.27 ;-)

Your choice is solid and will last for years. Having said that it's seems to me Wayland will be slowly dethroning X11 whether we like it or not.

I personally have no issue with Wayland because most apps I am using are performing correctly with native Wayland or via XWayland. Simply put I am getting boring as I am getting older. Now all I want is a conventional, productive and boring UX like that of GNOME or KDE.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by DKnoto on March 19, 2025, 06:24:43 am »

I, unfortunately, said goodbye to the Fedora distribution... I still need X11 and that will not change for a long time. Gnome is getting more and more frustrating from version to version. I went back to simplicity, FreeBSD 14.2 + X11 + Enlightenment 0.27 ;-)

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc A770 - failed experiment

« Last post by tle on March 19, 2025, 01:28:39 am »

It's been 2 years and ... unfortunately the driver still does not support non-x86.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« Last post by tle on March 19, 2025, 01:24:38 am »

The PowerColor RX 9070 XT Reaper card would likely fit IF your case is tight.

I am too interested in obtaining this card when it is available in my local computer store.

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by tle on March 18, 2025, 07:11:25 pm »

The final release would be likely in the mid April, now is the time to have a go and report all issues

For more information https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WE4CEHE6KD77NV6RGFX2SE2FYLP7UGUE/

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: It looks like you have 1 guarded cores

« Last post by dmoreno on March 18, 2025, 12:58:37 pm »

Thanks! I'll try that.