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There’s literally no better hardware. If I want 48Gb+ vram for $2000, it’s literally a bank of ancient, power sucking Tesla P40s or this… there’s nothing else because Nvidia/AMD price gouge everything else. Heck, the used 24GB 3090 I bought has skyrocketed in price. I’d still be paying l$1500+ for a bare minimum 3090 system now.
I’d love to be wrong, but the GPU market is totally fucked.
GPU aside, it’s the same for those that want a really fast transcoder box or whatever.
You're deluding yourself into thinking this iGPU is more powerful than it actually is.
Have you seen benchmarks comparing it to some of the competition?
Honestly I don’t even care if it’s half as fast as a 4070, that’s fast enough for me.
In workstation workloads, some stuff just will not run unless you have a ton of VRAM, and running slower is fine. Or in other cases, you get a gigantic speedup from the virtue of simply having tons of VRAM. That’s the value, not pure core speed compared to some 8GB GPU.
But I am not deluding myself, the core performance is in the ballpark of a laptop 7700S: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-8060S-Benchmarks-and-Specs.942049.0.html
It’s also (on paper) slower than my desktop 3090, but in practice, an order of magnitude faster for stuff that struggles to fit on the 3090.
You're the one who's trying to argue its power, and then when presented with a better option you say "it's fast enough for me."
Have you seen benchmarks comparing the performance of this iGPU to dGPUs?
Please share.
See the notebookcheck page above.
What benchmarks are you seeing that are telling you this is a better deal than the alternatives?
Come on, you can be specific so I don't have to assume what you're talking about.