#GPU_Technology

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Parameters are still unknown As you know, new US sanctions prohibit the supply of various accelerators for AI to China, including the H800 and A800 models, which, in fact, were created for China. However, Nvidia is simply going to pull the same trick again with the creation of special versions that will not fall under the next sanctions. [caption id="attachment_81201" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Nvidia[/caption] HGX H20, L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe models expected soon Nvidia is reportedly preparing three accelerators at once: HGX H20, L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe. They can be presented in the very near future: after November 16. It is still unknown what characteristics the new accelerators will have, but it is worth remembering that the new sanctions limit the supply of solutions with performance above a certain level, so Nvidia will clearly somehow limit this very performance. Let us also recall that the gaming RTX 4090 was also banned, but at least Nvidia has other options within the same line, and new ones will appear soon .

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The normal model is one and a half times faster We have already seen how Chinese craftsmen converted mobile GeForce RTX 3060 Laptops into desktop adapters. It turned out that there was the same miracle but in the form of the RTX 3080 Ti.  [caption id="attachment_77776" align="alignnone" width="780"] GeForce RTX 3080 Ti[/caption] Such adapters are produced by the Chinese company XR, which we have not heard of before. Technically, this is a mobile RTX 3080 Ti Laptop, that is, with a GA103 GPU at the core, which has 7424 active CUDA cores. For comparison, the desktop RTX 3080 Ti is based on the GA102 with 10,240 CUDA cores.   [caption id="attachment_77778" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 3080 Ti[/caption] Be careful when purchasing the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. In addition, this “Frankenstein's monster” has a 256-bit bus and lower frequencies, but it has 16 GB of memory versus 12 GB for the original desktop model. What’s interesting is that in this particular case, the TDP is also reduced to 115 W, although the mobile RTX 3080 Ti Laptop can operate at 150 W.  However, tests show that the flip card produces results almost identical to the mobile model. But the normal RTX 3080 Ti is one and a half times faster than both versions, that is, these are solutions of completely different classes.  [caption id="attachment_77779" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 3080 Ti[/caption] Thus, when purchasing an RTX 3080 Ti from China, it is worth taking a closer look at the product’s characteristics. 

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The company reported for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 A few days after Intel, AMD also published its financial report. The company has completed the third quarter of fiscal year 2023. [caption id="attachment_77691" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD's[/caption] If Intel's revenue decreased and net profit fell by more than 70%, then AMD's situation is better. Revenue rose 8% to $5.8 billion, and operating profit amounted to $224 million versus a loss of $64 million a year earlier. Net income rose more than 1,000% to $299 million. AMD's net profit grew by 1000% and equaled Intel's net profit By the way, Intel's net profit was only $1 million higher, which is very interesting. At the same time, Intel's revenue is almost 2.5 times higher than that of its competitor. It’s also worth noting that the data center products segment did not grow year-on-year in the past quarter, although it has been actively driving AMD’s revenue upward in recent years. However, sales in the consumer segment increased by 42%, mainly due to the full entry into the market of Ryzen 7000 mobile APUs. AMD's gaming business fell 8% due to lower revenue from sales of semi-custom products.

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And not only to China It turned out that not only the H800 and A800 accelerators, which China needs for development in the field of artificial intelligence, were subject to new US sanctions. Regular RTX 4090 is now also banned for the Chinese. [caption id="attachment_71132" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4090[/caption] The US even banned deliveries to China of the GeForce RTX 4090 More precisely, the list includes the following Nvidia models: A100, A800, H100, H800, L40, L40S, and RTX 4090. Considering that the new rules are based on performance and TFLOPS per square meter. mm, probably the RTX 4090 is simply too powerful and therefore falls into the same category as specialized solutions. It is also worth noting that it is not only China that will no longer be able to obtain such adapters. The ban also applies to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. If they stop supplying gaming RTX 4090 to China, these cards will probably skyrocket in price in this country.

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And not only to China It turned out that not only the H800 and A800 accelerators, which China needs for development in the field of artificial intelligence, were subject to new US sanctions. Regular RTX 4090 is now also banned for the Chinese. [caption id="attachment_71132" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4090[/caption] The US even banned deliveries to China of the GeForce RTX 4090 More precisely, the list includes the following Nvidia models: A100, A800, H100, H800, L40, L40S, and RTX 4090. Considering that the new rules are based on performance and TFLOPS per square meter. mm, probably the RTX 4090 is simply too powerful and therefore falls into the same category as specialized solutions. It is also worth noting that it is not only China that will no longer be able to obtain such adapters. The ban also applies to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. If they stop supplying gaming RTX 4090 to China, these cards will probably skyrocket in price in this country.

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And not only to China It turned out that not only the H800 and A800 accelerators, which China needs for development in the field of artificial intelligence, were subject to new US sanctions. Regular RTX 4090 is now also banned for the Chinese. [caption id="attachment_71122" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4090[/caption] The US even banned deliveries to China of the GeForce RTX 4090 More precisely, the list includes the following Nvidia models: A100, A800, H100, H800, L40, L40S, and RTX 4090. Considering that the new rules are based on performance and TFLOPS per square meter. mm, probably the RTX 4090 is simply too powerful and therefore falls into the same category as specialized solutions. It is also worth noting that it is not only China that will no longer be able to obtain such adapters. The ban also applies to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. If they stop supplying gaming RTX 4090 to China, these cards will probably skyrocket in price in this country.

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Nvidia shares fell after this information appeared Nvidia shares suffered their worst stock drop in more than two months after US President Joe Biden's administration restricted the company's sales of processors designed specifically for the Chinese market, as expected yesterday. Nvidia has warned that the new rules could hamper product development and cause other difficulties, although the changes are unlikely to cause financial losses in the short term. Nvidia shares fell 4.7% to $439.38, their biggest one-day drop since Aug. 9. The tighter controls will affect Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, which the US firm created for export to China after the Biden administration imposed its initial restrictions last October, a senior US official said. [caption id="attachment_71011" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Nvidia chips[/caption] Authorities have cut sales of Nvidia chips produced specifically for China “We follow all regulations as we work to create products that support thousands of applications across a broad range of industries,” Nvidia said in a statement. “Given the global demand for our products, we do not expect a material impact on our financial results shortly.” Morgan Stanley lowered its target price for Nvidia shares due to "draconian" export controls. Shares of Asian companies related to artificial intelligence chips fell after the official US announcement. Shares of Beijing Unisplendour Corp. and Lenovo Group Ltd., which sells data center equipment in China, were down about 10%. As part of the new rules, the Biden administration added two Chinese artificial intelligence chip startups, Shanghai Biren Intelligent Technology Co., to its list of trade restrictions. and Moore Threads Intelligent Technology Beijing Co. - and their subsidiaries. The US requires companies to obtain a US government license before shipping products to these firms. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said her country opposes this US policy. After this news appeared, retail prices for Nvidia cards in the Chinese online store JD increased by an average of 10% per day.

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The premiere of new products is expected in January A trusted insider known by the nickname hongxing2020 reported that Nvidia will soon revive the Super line of video cards. In particular, the company is preparing the following three models: GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4070 Super. [caption id="attachment_70715" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia[/caption] Nvidia will release super video cards again. There are no specifications, the insider does not indicate the premiere date, but the new products will likely be presented in early January at CES 2024. Let us recall that ten days ago another insider reported that Nvidia is working on the GeForce RTX 4080 Super: the consumption of this model will be lower than 450 W, and the price is the same as the regular GeForce RTX 4080. It is logical that after the release of “super video cards” the current GeForce RTX 4080, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and GeForce RTX 4070 will become cheaper. Insider hongxing2020 previously accurately predicted the release dates of several video card models and was also one of the first to report the renaming of the GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB (remember, it was released as the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti). Let us remind you that yesterday AMD introduced a new product: the company introduced the Radeon RX 6750 GRE priced at $300.

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And not only in Counter Strike 2 AMD had to disable its latest Anti-Lag+ feature in all games. The latest Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.10.2 driver comes out just a week after the previous one, where Anti-Lag+ received support for Counter-Strike 2.  [caption id="attachment_70272" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD[/caption] Let us remind you that it turned out that Valve Anti-Cheat security software automatically blocks players who have the Anti-Lag+ function enabled. The problem affects not only Counter-Strike 2 but also several other competitive online shooters.   AMD has disabled the new Anti-Lag+ feature, which caused gamers to be blocked in Counter-Strike 2 The thing is that the method by which Anti-Lag+ works in games through the driver is identified by anti-cheat programs as one of the ways to bypass the game’s protection. Anti-Lag+ does not require developers to integrate it into a particular game but instead modifies game DLLs.  It is unclear what AMD will do next with its development. Perhaps it will simply block its activation in those games where this may be a problem, leaving the function active for everyone else. Let us remind you that the Anti-Lag+ function itself is designed to reduce delays.  

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These are almost complete copies of the RX 6700 and RX 6700 XT AMD today introduced the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB and Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12GB video cards. Unlike the RX 7900 GRE, which is an independent model, these two new products are almost complete copies of the RX 6700 and RX 6700 XT. But at the same time, the new products are much cheaper, and because of this, they create competition for the same RX 7600. You can verify this by looking at the tests that have already been published by Chinese resources.  [caption id="attachment_70259" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD[/caption] As you can see, the youngest of the new products is slightly ahead of the RX 7600, while the older one is much faster and almost identical to the RX 6750 XT. At the same time, let us remind you that AMD’s new products are very cheap. Initially, only prices for China were known, but there are also retail prices for the US, which is strange considering that in the US and Europe, these adapters will reportedly only be available as part of pre-built PCs.  One way or another, for the US we are talking about $270 and $290 for the younger and older versions, respectively. The difference is surprisingly negligible, and the older card looks much more advantageous: it has more memory, a wider bus, and more stream processors.  AMD is selling for $290 while the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti sells for $400-$500. [caption id="attachment_70260" align="aligncenter" width="556"] AMD[/caption] [caption id="attachment_70261" align="aligncenter" width="563"] AMD[/caption] At the same time, the price of the RX 7600 is just $270, that is, we can say that both new products compete with this adapter and the older of the new products looks more profitable.   As for competing with Nvidia, the RX 6750 GRE 12GB is almost identical to the RTX 4060 Ti. Moreover, the latter costs $400.

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Because of this, GPD is unable to supply its set-top boxes to customers. GPD, known for its portable laptop-game console hybrids, is experiencing supply problems with its new Win Max 2 model. And AMD is to blame for this, according to GPD.  [caption id="attachment_70240" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD[/caption] GPD accuses AMD of missing delivery dates for Ryzen 7000 hybrid processors GPD says AMD is unable to supply the pre-agreed number of Ryzen 7000 APUs on which the new console is based. More precisely, we are talking about the Ryzen 7 7840U. GPD received the first batch of these APUs, but they still haven’t received the second, although they should have received it a long time ago. As a result, GPD accused AMD of violating the terms of the contract, but it is not yet clear whether this is all formalized in legal form.  It is also unknown what volumes of Ryzen APUs we are talking about. However, you need to understand that AMD does not produce its own CPUs and GPUs. The company's modern solutions are produced by TSMC.  

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The basic version with 10 GB of memory costs this much, but there is also an option with 12 GB of memory. Today, AMD officially unveiled the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 3D card. It has two options that don't differ much in price ($305 and $325) but are very different in terms of features. [caption id="attachment_70227" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD[/caption] The base Radeon RX 6750 GRE with 10GB of GDDR6 memory has 36 compute units, a 160-bit memory bus, and 80MB of fast Infinity Cache memory. GPU frequency - 2189–2450 MHz, consumption - 170 W. This is how AMD describes the latest Radeon RX 6750 GRE graphics card for $305 [caption id="attachment_70228" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD[/caption] The Radeon RX 6750 GRE version with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory received a GPU with 40 computing units and a frequency of 2439–2581 MHz. The memory bus width was 192 bits, the Infinity Cache volume was 96 MB, and the consumption was much higher - 230 W. Both versions will be offered in China by AMD partners and major PC builders as pre-configured systems.

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It is unclear whether these are isolated cases or whether this occurs periodically GeForce RTX 30 video cards were quite problem-free at one time, unlike the same RTX 4090. However, it is now being reported that at least the RTX 3080 FE may have problems with the cooling system. [caption id="attachment_69919" align="aligncenter" width="740"] GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX A6000[/caption] One of the Quasarsone forum participants discovered significant defects in the cooling system of the reference GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition. Disassembly showed that copper oxides had formed on the CO radiator. The chamber clearly leaked, which caused chemical reactions that led to quite noticeable consequences. The GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX A6000 were found to have leaks in the vapor chambers Similar defects were quickly found on the Nvidia RTX A6000 professional card. At the same time, on the one hand, so far we are talking about these two instances, on the other, the identity of the cases suggests that the problem may be much more widespread. At the very least, this is another reason to better check video cards when purchasing them in person.  

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The youngest is not fat at all Until now, there were only a few models of GeForce video cards on the market with Noctu coolers and they were produced only by Asus. Now such adapters have been released by the Japanese company Sycom.  [caption id="attachment_69887" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 Ti[/caption] To release the new products, Sycom enlisted the support of not only Noctua but also Nagao Industry, which developed a specialized frame that can accommodate two Noctua fans.   The quietest GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 Ti? Three new products have been announced: GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with 8 and 16 GB of memory and RTX 4070. These are far from the hottest adapters, and in their case, the effect of using Noctua fans compared to other available systems may not be as significant as in the case of the RTX 4080, which was released by Asus.  The RTX 4070 model turned out to be quite thick, but the RTX 4060 Ti occupies only two expansion slots, which makes it the thinnest video card with Noctua CO.  

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Before this, the video card gradually became cheaper Nvidia unexpectedly decided to increase the recommended price for the GeForce RTX 4090 video card in Europe. [caption id="attachment_69878" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4090[/caption] The adapter, which came out almost exactly a year ago, has risen by 30 euros. Now the recommended price is 1800 euros. Let us remind you that the card initially appeared in Europe with a price of 1950 euros. Nvidia increased the price of GeForce RTX 4090 in Europe Over the past year, Nvidia has adjusted the price more than once, and most often this was due to the exchange rate. The current adjustment is also explained by the change in the euro/dollar exchange rate, but if previously the price always fell, it has now risen. If you look at aggregators, the cheapest offers for the RTX 4090 in Europe start at about 1,660 euros, that is, the cards have long been cheaper than the recommended price.

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Repair video published The NorthWestRepair YouTube channel published a video showing how to find the cause of the problem and repair the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition video card. It turned out that during assembly an insect got between the GPU and the contact pads of the printed circuit board. [caption id="attachment_69288" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4090[/caption] The customer said it was a “brand new” Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition, which he bought from a “resale location” without any guarantee at a good price. When the system was turned on, the GPU fans spun up to maximum speed, but the image was not displayed on any monitor. The new GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition did not turn on due to a dried insect [caption id="attachment_69289" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4090[/caption] NorthWestRepair engineers diagnosed the video card and found no damage or short circuits on the printed circuit board. They decided to test the GPU, which is the key component of the video card. To do this, they removed the AD102 chip using special equipment and found a dried-winged insect underneath it. https://youtu.be/r0mVjm2lpY4 After removing the insect and cleaning the contacts, the chip was installed back into the video card. The video ends with testing the video card in 3DMark.