An ultra performance Nvidia Spark machine from Gigabyte thats amazing )
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Nvidia Challenges Apple Silicon With New RTX Spark PC Chip
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Nvidia does the same thing too claims for their chipset lol they even can't beat Snapdragon on the CPU
I never said the Hardware or software couldn't run the games, is just apple that doesn't lend support, the games you mentioned prove that apple doesn't really care about gamers, they are great game on their own merits, they are just older games, will GTA 6, the Witcher 4 run upon release, the capability is probably there, but I'm afraid by the time they are ported to MAC os they probably will be old news, unfortunately. there is more support for Linux on gaming than Mac OS.
splifingate
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An ultra performance Nvidia Spark machine from Gigabyte thats amazing )
My FE Spark--while a right-beastie--is thirsty, and sheds an enormous amount of heat . . . nVidia is going to have to gimp Teh Gimp to shoehorn this into a battery-life-conscious platform.
I want Apple crush them using 2nm GAAFET but still really hope using BS-PDN(Backside Power Delivery Network) maybe coming the next 2 years
Maybe not everyone can develop GPU but at least Apple trying, even AMD and Intel trying to catch up but still loses because cuda still superior
If this was the case apple couldn't make mac computers fast enough, Macs are toys with some niche applications, that's about it, they used to be big on the education market, but chrome books ate that market, if you want to do local AI then maybe, that's about it, The best computer is the one that can accomplish the task at hand, being windows MAC os, Linux, there is no such thing as a perfect device, a perfect OS for everyone, since no combination of os and hardware have 100% of the market, you like Macs and its os, keep using them everyone else that like something else will use that.
throAU
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They can't.
Try buy a Mac mini for example. Anyone doing AI development is likely working on a Mac, and that's only the most significant paradigm shift in the past 30 years.
This is a recent development, with memory scarcity and higher prices, until the end of last year you could get any mac mini quite easily, even from Amazon.com.
throAU
macrumors G4
Between 10 and maybe 15 of market share, definitely toys.
That's just silly. The desktop market userbase does not consist of professionals. It's mostly a consumer market.
Just by virtue of being priced above the median, macs are very much for professionals. Now what professionals is another matter, but still professionals.
Luftkopf
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Right. I'll go tell the building designers I work for that they're designing houses with toys, and that I'm doing thermal simulations and drafting on a toy.
BSDnostalgia
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The memory hierarchies are different, and, as I understand it, gives each platform an advantage on different types of AI applications, which isn't my interest. But, they will also perform differently on different types of graphics applications, not all of which are "gaming" (believe it or not 😉), and, likewise, numerical simulations.
Thanks for pointing that out. Real specs here: TOP_ATOM
Yes, what we have seen so far doesn't look "mobile". I'm not sure what that "Microsoft Surface" type thing is going to be like. Sounds like a thermal problem waiting to happen.
Regardless, in the chassis version, you have "20-core Arm, 10 Cortex-X925 + 10 Cortex A725", "NVIDIA DGX™ OS, Ubuntu Linux", and "128GB LPDDR5x" for the main memory.
Added to that is some very good connectivity, including 10 GbE, and, "1 x NVIDIA ConnectX-7", a QSFP-based interconnect for up to 400Gbps connections. (I haven't looked deeply into this, but, my understanding is that this can be configured to be a small 400 Gbps LAN. If so, this addresses the issues people have with trying to use Thunderbolt via USB-C this way.)
Altogether, this could be the start of something big, just like Apple Silicon turned out to be. As I said in an earlier post, Nvidia is going to hype this for AI, because, they are making billions off of the AI bubble, but, this is actually the beginning of another next-generation general-purpose ARM-based architecture, like AS was.
Alex Ziskind has a preview of the RTX Spark that mentions that nVidia's ConnectX-7 NIC costs around $1500.
That's thinking from five years ago. Much has changed since then.
It's easier even if you are operating at the CUDA or Metal level; but so much now happens at some version of the Python level...
Where did you get that number for Sparx because I can't find any official release from Nvidia?
It's a GB10 -- the chip has been out for a year now and its specs are well known https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gb10.c4342
splifingate
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I have seen references to "Think of the GB10 as basically a ConnectX-7 with a CPU/GPU attached to it."
splifingate
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Two QSFP56 with four channels of ~50Gbps interwoven (PCIe5-x4 + PCIe5-x4). Max of 100Gbps per port (200Gbps (theoretical) max in/out).
Then which 500 company uses macs exclusively, not mom and pop shop but any big enterprise company?
None, apple abandoned the enterprise market after the failed MAC server.
I'm not trying to offend anyone, but reality is reality, apple even let Google take the education market that once was theirs, apple has been happy to stay as niche company, because that way they can charge a premium per device, which is fine their choice, but to come and claim somehow that MACS are superior to everything else is just silly, they have their use the same as any other computing device being Linux or windows, to me is about choosing the right tool for the job, no feelings or opinions involved, i own multiple IOS devices because they make sense for my usage. they have definitively better and or more capable devices in the android side, but i don't like their data privacy posture, that's it, for example i consider Linux far superior than windows and MAC os for certain things, but not as a Home user Desktop os, the average home user doesn't care if Wayland is running with AMD (ATI) open source drivers or NVIDIA proprietary (Closed Source) drivers, they just care that they can run their software, watch Netflix or run their web browser, they don't care if is Chrome, fire fox or safari.