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Switched from Kubuntu to Mint + KDE last week. Very happy indeed.
A monopoly? How, by making better cards? When AMD or Intel makes a better card, I’ll buy one.
The median salary at Nvidia is $266,939. I don’t feel sorry for their workers.
Probably better to ask on !localllama@sh.itjust.works. Ollama should be able to give you a decent LLM, and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) will let it reference your dataset.
The only issue is that you asked for a smart model, which usually means a larger one, plus the RAG portion consumes even more memory, which may be more than a typical laptop can handle. Smaller models have a higher tendency to hallucinate - produce incorrect answers.
Short answer - yes, you can do it. It’s just a matter of how much RAM you have available and how long you’re willing to wait for an answer.
This is why I want Intel Arc to succeed, because maybe it’ll make AMD take Radeon more seriously. It’s been a steady decline since the ATI days (2006)
I love my Ryzen though.
I think it’s because architecture-wise, these are more in line with the 8000 series. The 7500F is a full featured Ryzen 7000, but with broken graphics. These are basically 8000 series APUs, so they have the lower PCIe version, lower cache and fewer PCIe lanes, and broken graphics.
I suspect the price will come down soon because no one should be buying these at this price. The 8400F is only $10 less than a full 8500G.
Edit: I just saw that the 8400F is a six-core, so maybe that helps justify the price.
Did they give up on trying to put X3D into laptops?
That would be nice. And maybe a bridge for sharing memory between cards, since Nvidia got rid of theirs.
I’d love a 24Gb card, less than 270mm, without the cursed power connector.
Is this the generation where they’re only making mid-range and lower cards?
I don’t think the handheld data is accurate. The Steam Deck, and any other x86 handheld, will probably be lumped in with PC sales. But still, the Nintendo Switch should have huge numbers by itself.
Thanks for posting. I’m still new to this and had no idea what settings I should be using.
It’s probably a pain to set up in Windows. In Linux, it just works, there’s nothing to set up. I’m using it right now.
OP really should have mentioned their OS.
Edit: Actually, nevermind both my posts. I know DRI_PRIME works by using my APU for regular desktop activity, and routing discrete GPU output in whenever a game is being played. But I don’t know if it’s possible to make it use the dGPU all the time.
Even if it did, it would only work inside the OS, so if you had to boot into the BIOS for anything, you wouldn’t have a display. So for all intents and purposes, it wouldn’t really work.
I just did a quick bing chat search (“does DRI_PRIME work on systems without a cpu with integrated graphics?”) and it says it will work. I can’t check for you because my CPUs all have graphics.
I CAN tell you that some motherboards will support it (my ASUS does) and some don’t (my MSI).
BTW, I’m talking about Linux. If you’re using Windows, there’s a whole series of hoops you have to jump through. LTT did a video a while back.
AMD APUs have Video Coding Engine / Unified Video Decoder, while Intel CPUs have QuickSync. FFMPEG’s hardware page says that AMD support is incomplete.
You may want to ask over in !datahoarder@lemmy.ml . This topic often came up back on Reddit, and the general vibe I got was that most people prefer QuickSync. Intel may not be great in a lot of areas, but they are a beast in video encoding/decoding. That being said, I use a Ryzen APU and it’s perfectly fine. There are way more important things to look at when choosing a CPU.
If your performance is slow, I would check your CPU is listed on the chart I linked above. Not all CPUs support all codecs.
Edit: If your CPU doesn’t support the codec, it will still work, it just won’t be accelerated.
Looks like it’ll be able to live up to all the hype. Hopefully AMD is improving ROCm to match. Customers won’t buy it if it’s still a pain in the ass to use.
OMG. I originally got the impression (from somewhere) that you couldn’t pass arguments to an alias, so I googled and found that weird function nonsense. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks.
alias hgrep='function _f(){ history | grep $1; };_f'
Because I’m to lazy to type
history | grep whatever_I'm_looking_for
Thanks for posting this. I couldn’t figure out why Steam was broken on my laptop for the last 3 weeks or so. Installing the .deb from the Steam website fixed it. I’m starting to get fed up with Canonical.
You haven’t heard about wearable servers? C’mon get with the times! I’m headed out for a jog now, gotta keep my hashrate up!
Not enough Xs for me. If I don’t see at least 2 or 3 Xs, how do I know how fast it is?
Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].
I’m like “what’d we ever do to you?”