Comment by samuelknight
21 hours ago
You can tell by the shape of the board that it's meant to go into a server chassis behind a stack of 80mm blower fans. It's not meant for consumers, but you will be able to buy it used for $200 off ebay in 7 years to put in your home lab.
you won't be able to buy it for $200 in 7 years. 7 year old GPUs are still going for more than that, and take into account inflation and demand for these things. My bet is that you will not be able to buy it not even for < $4000 in 7 years
Wonder if there will be consumer video drivers for these GPUs once the AI hardware shortage is over. Hope to buy a gaming rig one day that doesn't cost a fortune.
You can vibe-code the drivers. Someone just did that with the Nvidia drivers for Intel Macs, bless their soul.
I dont think it has a video out
I remember back in the day of AGP cards around 2002, you could use a 3d card on linux to render the grafix but use a different GPU for the actual output. I used XFree86 on linux with a voodoo banshee (or maybe was a riva tnt2) and a matrox mga200 for its sync-on-green support with my monitor to play games.
I know modern card architecture doesn't support this out of the box, but what is the actuall problem of forwarding a once-rendered frame to another card for output? Sureley DMA transfers PCIe->RAM->PCIe nowaday are fast enough to saturate 60fps at 4K?
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME
> We want to render applications on the more powerful card and send the result to the card which has display connected.
in latest gamersnexus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4c2FSSaCsw Wendell from Level1 Techs was showing some older Amazon dedicated server GPUs with no video output that got hacked community driver making it work like laptop dgpu copying rendered video across PCIe.
In 2 years once it fails and Intel shuts it down completely you mean :)
As has been claimed every year for the last 30, at least. Much like predicting the end of the world, one day, if you keep at it, you'll actually be right.
I think he meant Intel shuts down their graphics division, not Intel shutting down. It's very easy to believe as they've shut down pretty much everything they've tried other than CPUs.
I wonder how they feel about selling their RAM business a few years ago.
Wonder if today's ram will go up price by then...
It is going up one way or another- the price of money will go down - @5% inflation over 8 years the value of today’s dollar will be 67.7c .