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I remember when Nvidia did vacuum cleaners. 
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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **
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AMD announces Radeon Instinct MI25 specifications
https://videocardz.com/70440/amd-announces-radeon-instinct-mi25-specifications
That vid above, never gets old!
What on earth is going on here?
Memory Bandwidth - Up to 484GB/s. It is either that speed or its not or does it throttle?
What point is there using HBM2 when it runs slower than current NVidia cards like the Titan Xp.
One of the advantages of HBM is supposed to be a small PCB yet this card measures up at 10.5", the same as a lot of NVidia GDDR5X equipped cards.
300W TDP and its Passively Cooled, something does not add up here.
No OS Support for Windows
AMD seem to have got something very wrong here, lets hope the other Vega cards are a bit better.
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As other have noted it's 'passively cooled' in a server with industrial fans blowing air over it. I would guess the reason for the length is just be for the heat sink, though obviously we can't tell without opening it up.
It's a server card.
I remember when Nvidia did vacuum cleaners.
I had one of those! Wasn't that bad, remember playing lots of WolfET on an FX5800U
The GTX480 though that thing was loud and hot... the 3870X2 was also a noisy bugger!
They're also that length because, they can act like the Radeon Pro SSG essentially.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/06/19/amd-winds-one-two-compute-punch-servers/
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I had 670's in SLI and those ran frighteningly hot!
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2TB wow, these are industrial specs and we're taking it all out of context. Ideally these cards would have different names to avoid confusion, their backbone is related but its not made for anything close to home use. You should be sitting there with a pipe in one hand blowing bubbles reading this, who knows how useful any spec is to directx or anything a home user might want
Reminds me of a open cleaning tank we had in work like that, slide your pressed metal sheets in and removes dirt just with this heavier then air invisible chemical and if you leaned over the side too much you'd pass out and die in a few minutes without help but it was amazingly effective done right. Who knows how'll they best use these other vega cards
Depth might be the factor they avoid more then length I'd guess. I've been in the big server room for my local authority years back, there is a constant roar of massive fans filling the room and the air is far cooler then any normal environment its not built to be occupied by anything but these great behemoth machines stacked up with cables and racks of gear. It's great on a hot day like but pretty unpleasant just to stand there a few minutes otherwise. I believe in some hashing operations they run a special chemical made by 3m over the cards, not heard of anyone in a bedroom operation or garage even doing such things because its probably dangerous.
Reminds me of a open cleaning tank we had in work like that, slide your pressed metal sheets in and removes dirt just with this heavier then air invisible chemical and if you leaned over the side too much you'd pass out and die in a few minutes without help but it was amazingly effective done right. Who knows how'll they best use these other vega cards
I remember when Nvidia did vacuum cleaners.
Big difference IMO between a card that performs at the top and is hot and noisy and one that doesn't perform that great and is hot and noisy.
Least they had a sense of humour about it heh.
HBM2 is lower latency, has more memory channels and takes up far less space and power for the amount of storage you get.
So bandwidth is no longer a selling point of HBM2
Having said that NVidia cards with HBM2 have much higher bandwidth.
NVIDIA cards have 3-4 HBM2 modules, Vega has two modules.
“Flight attendants, prepare for take-off please.”
“Cabin crew, please take your seats for take-off.”
Reminds me my old 290X Crossfire setup
Funny, they do sound like the Radeon X1950XTX's in CrossFire.
I had one of those! Wasn't that bad, remember playing lots of WolfET on an FX5800U
The GTX480 though that thing was loud and hot... the 3870X2 was also a noisy bugger!
I remember Window Media Player 8 skinned used to set it off.
I had one of those! Wasn't that bad, remember playing lots of WolfET on an FX5800U
The GTX480 though that thing was loud and hot... the 3870X2 was also a noisy bugger!
i miss that game
It isn't quite how I remember it. Looks very blocky now...
What is the spec on this new AMD card, 2 x 8gb modules?
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Yea unlike Fury X which used 4 modules the new Vega is only using 2 so the 16gb cards are using 2 x 8gb. If they were using 4 x 4gb the bandwidth would be double what it is.
I remember it looking better than that back in 2003 - 4?
yeah, maybe its lost some of its looks from being recorded and uploaded to Youtube,
i never played Jaymod just etpro, used to love a good run around the trickjump maps as well, my Mr Men clan had our own TJ map, Mr Men gamma :insertsmugsmiliehere.jpg:
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