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Even if relies on TSMC and IP-blocks purchased from other companies - it is still cool that a 2-year old startup can create graphics card that appears to compet
by throwaway4good 5y ago
Even if relies on TSMC and IP-blocks purchased from other companies - it is still cool that a 2-year old startup can create graphics card that appears to compete with what giants like NVDIA and AMD are offering.
- ferminaut 5y agothere is no price, there is no power usage, the rated fp32 is roughly on par with a video card that is 6 years old now. unless it's crazy efficient (at 12nm I doubt it), I wouldnt say it's competing with the giants.
- nwatson 5y agoBut maybe it can be sold in Russia.
- keewee7 5y agoDoubt it. It's either manufactured in Taiwan or by a Taiwanese compant in China.
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- rjzzleep 5y agoIt doesn't matter. You could always still buy everything in Iran regardless of what's sanctioned. Engineering firms were actually a bit upset because even though they wanted to buy licenses for e.g. STAAD Pro, they were forced to use pirated copies. At the end of the day the sanctions will do nothing but increases prices. The goods themselves won't stop flowing.
- FpUser 5y agoIf available and priced attractively I would very much buy this card. I never buy top of the line graphics cards but the equivalent of 1060-1070 works just fine for my needs. And I bet that there are enough people all over the world in the same position. I think it is a competition assuming they do not fold. Also it is a startup. If they do not go down for one or another reason nothing precludes them from going higher end given a time and favorable market.
- MangoCoffee 5y ago>If available and priced attractively i'm thinking the same. the game that i play now is either wow or hearthstone which isn't very graphic intensive. i think this card if price cheaply can be use for casual gaming and workstation (maybe?)
- FpUser 5y agoIt would run most of the games just fine. Sure heavy games would not be able to run at the highest settings but then again not that many people would care. And the ones who do can always splurge some megabucks on high end nVidia / AMD.
- imtringued 5y agoSomething people forget is that it is a dedicated graphics card. Unless someone is going to implement high bandwidth system memory like Apple did, that Chinese graphics card will run circles around most integrated GPUs. The competition is horrendously expensive because of the high demand for GPUs. There is enough room for a niche GPU manufacturer nowadays.
- tyrfing 5y agoMy guess from this press release is it'll be heavily focused on the China domestic market, since there are a lot of MIC 2025 related subsidies/incentives for that. Note the list of compatibility with various domestic architectures and software.
- phendrenad2 5y agoMaybe it'll have Linux drivers.
- rawoke083600 5y agoAsking the important questions !
- c_o_n_v_e_x 5y agoI thought cards supporting AV1 are new-ish?
- wang_li 5y agoExcept it’s three or four generations behind in performance. The article compares it to a 1060 from Nvidia.
- tromp 5y agoto a GeForce GTX 1070 in fact, 2 generations behind the current RTX 3070. All 3 generations are compared in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Iq6pFUdvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Iq6pFUdvE
- epolanski 5y agoA 1070 though was slower or on par to a 980ti which was released 7 years ago.
- wang_li 5y agoVolta (10x0 series), Ampere, Turing (16x0 & 20x0), then Lovelace (30x0).
- zeusk 5y ago10x0 was Pascal, Volta was Quadro only (Titan V), 16x0 and 20x0 are Turing, 30x0 is Ampere and Lovelace is Quadro only at the moment.
- phkahler 5y agoHalf of that is because it's on a 12nm node.
- neogodless 5y agoAccording to Steam Survey, the 1060 is the most popular GPU in use today.
- sandworm101 5y agoBut is the 1060 the most purchased gpu? What matters is sales, not users.
- JohnHaugeland 5y ago> can create graphics card that appears to compete with what giants like NVDIA and AMD are offering. uh ... no. six teraflops is a card from 2017.
- nottorp 5y agoBut the market is how it is. I'm on an 1050Ti. Even this would be an upgrade if price/power consumption is right. I have strong doubts about power consumption though.
- JohnHaugeland 5y agowell, if you want to say "competes with 2017 nvidia," that i could agree with but i basically guarantee that they keep falling further and further behind.
- nottorp 5y ago2022 basically doesn't exist unless you're willing to overpay to have the latest and greatest :)
- JohnHaugeland 5y agoYou can get NVidia cards at retail prices right now
- antifa 5y agoMy GPU that was midrange in 2012 could use an upgrade.
- ceeplusplus 5y agoThe entire GPU IP is licensed from Imagination. This is like Google making their Tensor phone chip and claiming it's novel when in reality everything is licensed from someone else and all they had to do was integrate it together.