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[bridgman]

In this case I have to go with vegabook's explanation.

If we could have cut the FP64 performance down to 1/16th before launch I suspect we...

[bridgman]

Yeah, from an AMD perspective it would have been cleaner if we had just shipped it with 1/16th FP64 like the other consumer cards, but on the other hand...

[bridgman]

Exactly... it was designed as a server/workstation card, but we found that the extra memory bandwidth made it perform quite a bit better relative to Vega10...

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We use the same chip for 32GB MI50/MI60 parts, so a 32GB workstation part should be fine....

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The problem is that ECC is not something that can be easily left out - every memory / register file, every functional block, every data path, HBM controllers,...

[bridgman]

The problem is that ECC is not something that can be easily left out - every memory / register file, every functional block, every data path... pretty...

[bridgman]

I think we understand it, but we haven't had a chance to spend money on it yet. That is changing though.



I don't think $700...

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Yep, I have the same concern - the ROCm documentation has grown huge, and it seems like it has grown past the point of maintainability without chaining...

[bridgman]

OK, I was just about to ask you what I said that you felt was condescending - this helps, thanks.

The first is not us saying "we don't...

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Fixed that for you ...

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Again, my comment was specifically in response to a poster's comments about Google. It was not meant to be dismissive in any way about the challenges...

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Actually it appears that the name might have been changed (to something like Radeon Open eCosysteM) after all due to trademark concerns....

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Thanks for clarifying. If you had said "valuable" (and hence with more possibility of raising capital from the stock market than in the past)...

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Sounds like the kernel (and maybe Mesa) code in your version of Clear Linux is not sufficiently new to include RX 6800 support. At first glance looks...

[bridgman]

Yep, agree completely. I don't think this has been sufficiently well understood at a management level but that is changing fairly quickly.

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[bridgman]

With respect, we made zero deal about Radeon VII's FP64 capability other than eventually adding an FP64 FLOPs number to the product page alongside FP16...

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It uses an NVidia/Mellanox API (which is what the NICs support) that requires application memory pages to be pinned in place from userspace. I think the...

[bridgman]

Yep... we could, we did and we didn't. In that order....

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Sure, except MadeUpName's question was specifically about consumer cards. We don't have fast FP64 in our consumer cards, just 1/16th-rate using the FP32...

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Hah... if it makes you Europeans feel any better the same card is nearly $25,000 (18,500 US) in Canada:

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/work/...