Zkuq said:
Seems to be at about the interface between hardware and compilers, so from a software perspective, that's really low-level stuff. |
The interface has always existed.
It's about the changes and additions they are bringing... Mostly to streamline the systems AMD uses for better efficiency and instruction parallelism, better cache utilization for tensor ops and reducing latency.
For most of us it's business as usual... But the changes do highlight that AMD is taking tensor operations more seriously with RDNA4.
| hellobion2 said: Hello I was wondering if anyone here on VGchartz has been on steam for 20 years and how long do you think a gaming laptop can last if I take care cleaning it every six months? |
Hardware is a fickle thing.
I mean... I have an old Pentium M Dothan with a Radeon 9700 Pro laptop hanging around with the CPU overclocked from 1.6Ghz to 2.4Ghz and the GPU from 445Mhz to 520Mhz since 2002.
It's been fine. Mostly gets used as a file server with some home automation tasks (I.E. Controlling garage doors), but I just can't kill it. Never cleaned, it just sits out in the garage.
I have an old Intel Atom N550 system from 2010 as a test box for a few hobbyist projects and I need to use external USB audio because the onboard audio chip died.
Hard to predict these things... And often failures aren't preventable because it's not a user issue.
Cleaning or not cleaning, I dont tend to clean my desktop PC all that often as it doesn't seem to significantly build up with dust, maybe once a year if I am lucky.
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But if your expectation isn't hardware longevity, but rather capable performance in the latest software... That is where things get tricky.
Most RTX 3060 and lower notebooks tend to have 6GB of VRAM or less, which will be a massive hindrance over the coming years, even if the GPU's themselves are semi-capable.
So you need to align your expectations to match... Notebooks are under-equipped in the GPU department.
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