Jun 26, 2021, 02:19 by softwo...@hotmail.com: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of >> Lynne >> Sent: Samstag, 26. Juni 2021 01:29 >> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg- >> de...@ffmpeg.org> >> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request >> >> Jun 25, 2021, 13:25 by t...@rothenpieler.org: >> >> > On 25.06.2021 10:14, Lynne wrote: >> > >> >> The prices have dropped a little, but the biggest difference is that >> >> stuff is *actually* available now. >> >> >> >> Unfortunately, now is not a good time to build an entire system. >> >> Socket AM4's finished, so if I build an AMD system, it'll be obsolete >> >> within a year or so, and it'll be non-upgradable. >> >> Intel's Rocket Lake was such a giant slow flop, and its socket is >> >> also getting obsoleted by Intel once Alder Lake gets released later >> >> this year, and it doesn't support DDR5 anyway. And again, Rocket Lake >> >> was such a giant mess. >> >> >> > >> > I don't think waiting for AM5 and DDR5 is worth it at the moment. >> > You'll be early-adopting a platform, which is always a bit iffy. >> > >> >> I don't mind being an early adopter, and I think I'll be getting that >> hardware >> on my own. >> >> >> > Do you really need a 6900XT? Every review I saw of those commented on >> their horrible price/performance ratio. Similarly overpriced as the RTX3090. >> > >> > Would a 6800XT not work fine as well? >> > >> >> I also want to work on neural networks, since it seems to be the direction >> into which codecs and filters are going, and for that, I'll need lots of RAM >> and >> power. >> And I'd rather not have to update anytime soon. >> Here, a 6800XT is less than 200 Euros cheaper than a 6900XT, which for a 1600 >> Euro GPU isn't all that much. >> >> >> > Or maybe a combination of two smaller cards, like one RTX3070 and one >> 6700XT, so you can test against both targets? Which would combined still be >> cheaper than a single 6900XT. >> > >> >> Not buying Nvidia unless its free, and happily sits gathering dust 99% of the >> time in a different system in another room that serves no other purpose to >> me but to test Nvidia cards. >> > > Wouldn't those 1% be a high value for the project? > (probably a cheap low-end boards would suffice for that as a 2nd gpu) > If I do need one, I'll try to grab one broken with one of its regs blown. They have the value of a brick since they don't work, but if you just desolder the blown reg, it'll work just fine with the rest. They overspec them. Speaking from experience.
>> happy sitting gathering dust because you constantly have to update drivers, >> > You can, but you don't have to. Many updates are primarily game optimizations. > Vulkan gets new extensions very often, and codecs also get updates. >> I'm running out of power outlets, >> > At the Fractal Design Ion+ 860W? > No, on my wall. >> and I'm not very sure it'll even run fine without a monitor >> > It will (like all Nvidia boards) > I have a 960M and it's a struggle to get it to work at all, and it gets broken by updates all the time. I get that it's an Optimus system, but apart from its weird display plumbing, it just appears as an ordinary Nvidia card on a PCIe interface. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
