[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request

[Lynne]

Jun 26, 2021, 02:19 by softworkz at hotmail.com:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
>> Lynne
>> Sent: Samstag, 26. Juni 2021 01:29
>> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
>> devel at ffmpeg.org>
>> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request
>>
>> Jun 25, 2021, 13:25 by timo at rothenpieler.org:
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>> > 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.
>> >
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>> I don't mind being an early adopter, and I think I'll be getting that hardware
>> on my own.
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>> > 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?
>> >
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>> 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.
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>> > 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.
>>
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> 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)
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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,
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> 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?
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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.