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RTX 3060 is in the lead, but only by a small margin Valve once again messed up something in its Steam statistics and now it had to fix it.  Last month we said that the share of the RTX 3060 increased one and a half times over the month , reaching almost 10%, and this is a huge indicator of both growth and absolute numbers. Now another month has passed, and the share of the RTX 3060 has sharply dropped to 5.04%, falling below the September figure. This has already happened with Steam statistics, some attribute it to some kind of correction due to data from China, but now the RTX 3060 figure looks more plausible.   [caption id="attachment_85263" align="aligncenter" width="756"] GeForce RTX 3060[/caption] GeForce RTX 3060 is not that popular at all. At the same time, the share of the GTX 1650 increased by 1.13 percentage points, which is a lot. The card is installed on 4.76% of all Steam players. The third place with a share of 4.32% is occupied by the GTX 1060.   In general, the performance of many adapters has been adjusted. For example, the share of the RTX 4060 decreased from 1.749% to 0.83%.  Similar changes have occurred with processors. The sharp jump in Intel's share a month ago apparently was some kind of mistake, so everything was corrected, and now Intel occupies 66.08%, and AMD has 33.88%.

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But you need two video cards Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR upscalers have their own variants of frame generation technology, which work differently and are available on different video cards. But it turns out that these technologies can be made to work together. [caption id="attachment_85199" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3[/caption] The authors from QuasarZone decided to check whether it would be possible to make the HR generation technologies of two companies work on one PC, and it turned out that it would work. But only in a very specific way, and the results are ambiguous. [caption id="attachment_85200" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3[/caption] Frame generation technologies in Nvidia DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3 forced to work together This all works thanks to the fact that AMD has an AFMF generator built into the driver, otherwise it probably would not have been possible to implement the idea. However, the system must still have two different 3D maps. In this case, the authors of the idea used the RTX 4090 and RX 6600. The game (in this case, several projects, including Cyberpunk 2077) was rendered on an RTX 4090 card. It also allowed DLSS 3 to be activated with frame generation. Next, the RX 6600, to which the monitor is connected, comes into operation. Technically it is used for image output, but the AMD driver allows you to improve performance through AFMF before outputting the image. That is, the AMD frame generator adds frames to a picture that the Nvidia generator had previously added frames to. At the same time, productivity increases greatly. Almost three times the original value and twice the value obtained after the generator in DLSS 3. This implementation, surprisingly, does not cause any special technical problems. Is it possible that the 1% Low indicator may even decrease in a number of games, although in Cyberpunk it has increased. In addition, it is worth remembering that AFMF technology turns off as soon as the player starts moving the camera quickly, but in quiet modes it automatically turns back on. Unfortunately, the authors did not pay attention to image quality, which is very important, given two technologies for completing frame drawing.

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It occupies four expansion slots Another video card with a Noctua cooler has appeared on the market. And she's incredibly fat again. [caption id="attachment_85159" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4070 Ti[/caption] Sycom introduced the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Silent Master, which received Noctua fans. As you can see in the photo, without fans this is a two-slot adapter, but with them it already takes up four slots. Actually, there are simply no high-performance models with Noctua fans (at least for three expansion slots), although the same Sycom previously released a two-slot RTX 4060 Ti . GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Silent Master presented with Noctua fans Like the lower-end cards, the new product uses Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM fans and a special frame for mounting them, developed by Nagao. As the name implies, the new product should stand out primarily for its quiet operation. Compared to the MSI model, according to Sycom's own measurements, the noise level is much lower: 43.6 versus 55.1 dB. Temperatures are also lower, but not as significantly: 74.5 versus 79.3 degrees.

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So far only Radeon RX 460 You can connect a full desktop discrete graphics card   to a Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer for $60. [caption id="attachment_85125" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4090 to Raspberry Pi 5[/caption] This is exactly what channel author Jeff Geerling implemented by connecting a Radeon RX 460 adapter to his Pi 5. And it all worked. True, achieving this is not so easy. Of course, the Raspberry Pi 5 itself does not have a PCIe slot, and indeed there are no classic slots at all. But since this is a Raspberry Pi, its capabilities can be expanded with various modules, adapters, and other things. That is, you can even connect a GeForce RTX 4090 to Raspberry Pi 5? To connect the video card, the author of the project used the uPCity module, which is not yet commercially available, but will appear in time. In addition, of course, the card needed to implement additional power. https://youtu.be/BLg-1w2QayU It’s difficult to say whether someone needs such a solution for practical purposes, since the Raspberry Pi 5 was created for experiments, but the ability to connect a discrete video card in itself is already a big plus.

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But the configuration can be changed The GeForce RTX 4090 D (Dragon) video card , which will be created specifically for the Chinese market and will not be subject to US sanctions, will receive the same GPU as the current version.  [caption id="attachment_85108" align="aligncenter" width="600"] GeForce RTX 4090 D[/caption] GeForce RTX 4090 D (Dragon) will retain the same AD102 GPU as the original model According to insider MEGAsizeGPU, it will be AD102, but in a different version. If the RTX 4090 initially used the AD102-300, which was then replaced by the AD102-301, then the new product will receive the AD102-250. Typically Nvidia changes the index number depending on the number of changes. That is, AD102-250 will be noticeably different from AD102-300/301. Unfortunately, it is still unclear what exactly.  Let us remember that the sanctions mean that the GeForce RTX 4090 D (Dragon) should have performance below 4800 TOPS, but this is an aggregate figure for different modes. Nvidia can reduce this figure in various ways, including cutting the core and reducing frequencies.  Insider MEGAsizeGPU previously spoke about the launch of the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti before the announcement, as well as the timing of these models entering the market. 

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Jensen Huang expressed commitment to the Chinese market Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that the United States is still far from independence in the semiconductor manufacturing market. [caption id="attachment_85069" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia[/caption] According to Huang, it will be another 10 to 20 years before the United States stops being dependent on Taiwanese and Chinese chip makers. Of course, this is provided that all these years the country’s course will be aimed at getting rid of this very dependence. The head of Nvidia thinks so The United States has been working for quite some time to open chip production factories within the country, but it cannot be said that very many of these factories have already been built there. Huang also noted that, despite US sanctions, Nvidia will continue to work with the Chinese market, as it is simply the largest. Let us remind you that yesterday it became known that instead of the banned RTX 4090, the company will create GeForce RTX 4090 D (Dragon) especially for China .

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Many cards are created from used adapters In China, a full-fledged hunt has begun for video cards that can at least somehow be turned into accelerators for AI. We have already talked about redesigning the RTX 4090 and RTX 3090 , but the Chinese went further and began to add memory to even less powerful adapters.  [caption id="attachment_84870" align="aligncenter" width="780"] RTX 3080 20GB and Radeon RX 580[/caption] The companies involved began creating versions of 3D maps that had never been released. For example, GeForce RTX 3080 with 20 GB of memory and even Radeon RX 580 with 16 GB. The second one by modern standards and especially by the standards of accelerators for AI is very weak, but in some scenarios it is not performance that is more important, but the amount of memory. RTX 3080 20GB and Radeon RX 580 16GB have already been created  [caption id="attachment_84871" align="aligncenter" width="780"] RTX 3080 20GB and Radeon RX 580[/caption] Moreover, at least in the case of the RX 580, of course, we are talking about modifying far from new adapters. It is reported that many of the cards that are now getting new life were previously involved in mining. Moreover, interestingly, companies engaged in such production provide a two-year warranty on such adapters. Apparently, the demand is such that overall sales more than cover the risks of failure of devices that are no longer new.

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In monetary terms Nvidia is today's largest semiconductor manufacturer based on revenue and profit. We already talked about this the other day, and now another visual graph has appeared demonstrating the rapid success of the company.  [caption id="attachment_84806" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia[/caption] This is a graph of the revenue of data center chip companies. As you can see, Nvidia became the first here too, with a huge gap from its competitors, and the turning point occurred only at the beginning of this year.  Nvidia is turning into a monster. Before this, for several years (actually much longer, this data is just not on the graph), the leader was Intel, which accounted for 45% to 60% of revenue or more. At the same time, Intel's share gradually decreased, while the shares of Nvidia and AMD, on the contrary, grew. However, in 2023, due to the AI ​​boom, Nvidia's share rose sharply, while the shares of AMD and Intel fell sharply. This does not mean that companies began to earn less - AMD is actively increasing sales of server CPUs, but Nvidia's growth is so great that the shares of AMD and Intel have actually decreased.   [caption id="attachment_84807" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia[/caption] Today we already said that in the last quarter alone, Nvidia sold about half a million H100 and A100 accelerators  and sales will only grow in the near future.  

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The largest customers bought 150,000 H100 adapters each In recent months, we've seen a lot of news about how Nvidia is selling its AI accelerators left and right, especially the most powerful H100. But only now has it become known how many of these adapters were actually sold. [caption id="attachment_84778" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia[/caption] According to Omdia, Nvidia managed to sell almost half a million H100 and A100 accelerators in the third quarter alone. There is no data on the sales ratio of these models, but probably the main emphasis now is on the H100. Nvidia sells half a million H100 and A100 accelerators per quarter In the current quarter, analysts expect that Nvidia will be able to sell more than half a million of these accelerators. If you look at the chart only for the H100, you can see that by the end of the entire current year, Nvidia is expected to supply about 650,000 of these adapters to its largest customers alone. [caption id="attachment_84779" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia[/caption] Moreover, the demand is so great that now the waiting time for deliveries reaches 52 weeks, that is, a whole year! You can also see that the largest buyers of the H100 are Microsoft and Meta*, each of which purchased approximately three times as many accelerators as its closest competitors such as Google, Amazon, Oracle and Tencent. * The Meta company is recognized as extremist in Russia and is banned.

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Just in time for the launch of the Super models As you know, Nvidia will stop mass production of the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 before the release of the Super models. Graphics card makers reportedly expect supplies of the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 to run out no later than December. Apparently these reserves are small. This is because Nvidia began to reduce production some time ago, which is confirmed by information from Board Chanel. [caption id="attachment_83466" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080[/caption] GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 stocks will be exhausted before the end of the year According to their data, Nvidia did not allocate a significant number of GPUs for the RTX 4080 to manufacturers in the current quarter, and GPU shipments for the RTX 4070 Ti were quite insignificant. Anyway, the RTX 40 Super models will be shown in early January, so everything is planned out pretty well.

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In games the situation should be slightly different The Radeon RX 7900M mobile video card, which is AMD's only top mobile solution, managed to outperform the mobile GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop in the first test. [caption id="attachment_82812" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Radeon RX 7900M[/caption] Unfortunately, this is not a game, but a Geekbench Vulkan benchmark. The new product scored more than 171,000 points, while the Nvidia flagship shows a result of about 157,000 points. There is no point in directly projecting these results onto games. But it’s still worth noting that if we compare the desktop RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4090, the latter is still faster, although not as much as in 4K games. So, perhaps, in reality, the Radeon RX 7900M will be close to the RTX 4090 Laptop in gaming tasks. Radeon RX 7900M managed to significantly outperform the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop [caption id="attachment_82815" align="aligncenter" width="646"] Radeon RX 7900M[/caption] If we talk about the OpenCL test, here, on the contrary, the Nvidia flagship is much faster: almost 190,000 points versus almost 159,000 points. However, if we look again at the comparison of desktop adapters, in this test the RX 7900 XTX, which in reality is usually a little faster than the RTX 4080, is inferior even to the RTX 4070 Ti, so the OpenCL result cannot exactly be transferred to games.

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The retailer's top 3 most popular video cards included models from MSI, Gigabyte and PowerColor Statistics on video card sales by the largest German retailer Mindfactory have been published for the 45th week of this year. The Radeon RX 7800 XT is in the lead in the overall top: 755 such accelerators were sold in a week. In second place with a large lag is the GeForce RTX 4070 with a result of 430 units sold. In third place is the Radeon RX 7900 XTX (270 units sold). [caption id="attachment_82146" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4070[/caption] The Radeon RX 7800 XT sells almost twice as much in Germany as the GeForce RTX 4070. In just a week, the retailer sold 1,990 AMD video cards, 1,585 Nvidia video cards and only 40 Intel video cards. Despite the meager sales of the “blue”, Intel secured 1.11% of the market - for the first time the share exceeded 1%. It is interesting that Intel does not have a clear leader: 20 copies of Arc A770 and Arc A380 were sold in a week. [caption id="attachment_82147" align="aligncenter" width="174"] GeForce RTX 4070[/caption] The top 3 specific models look like this: first place - MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X OC, second place - Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Windforce OC, third place - PowerColor Radeon RX 7800 XT Red Devil.

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Significant changes in the top five The list of the most productive supercomputers Top500 has been updated once again. Let us remind you that this happens once every six months.  [caption id="attachment_81909" align="aligncenter" width="740"] AMD[/caption] While several supercomputers with performance of about 2 exaFLOPS or higher are on the way, the leader is still the Frontier system, which was the first to overcome the 1 exaFLOPS mark and remains the only one of its kind, far ahead of its closest competitor.   The Frontier supercomputer based on AMD components remains the most powerful in the world. [caption id="attachment_81910" align="aligncenter" width="714"] AMD[/caption] This competitor, by the way, has changed. If six months ago the Supercomputer Fugaku system with a performance of 442 PFLOPS was in second place, now it is Aurora with a performance of 585 PFLOPS. But it is worth saying that now this is only part of the system that has already been put into operation. As a result, Aurora will have performance in excess of 2 exaFLOPS. This system is built on Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 processors and Intel Data Center Max accelerators. Frontier, remember, relies on AMD components.  In third place is also a newcomer: the Eagle system, owned by Microsoft, with a performance of 561 PFLOPS. But Supercomputer Fugaku dropped to fourth place. 

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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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Early next year At the beginning of next year, new video cards of the GeForce RTX 40 Super line should appear on the market, as reported by VideoCardz with reference to insider kopite7kimi. The source is confident that the announcement of GeForce RTX 40 Super gaming video cards will take place at the famous CES exhibition, which will take place early next year in Las Vegas. It was previously reported that the line would feature three models. The GeForce RTX 4080 Super will be based on the AD103 chip with 10,240 CUDA cores and will receive 16 GB of GDDR6X video memory with a 256-bit bus at a TBP level of 320 W. A line of new GeForce RTX 40 Super video cards will be released at CES 2024 [caption id="attachment_80345" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 40[/caption] The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super will receive an AD102 or AD103 GPU equipped with 8448 CUDA cores and 16 GB, and the GeForce RTX 4070 Super will receive an AD103 or AD104 with 7168 cores and 12 GB of memory. Insider kopite7kimi previously accurately reported the characteristics of the GeForce RTX 30 and RTX 40, and also told us in what order the RTX 40 video cards will be released.

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It's unclear exactly which CPUs Naver uses Over the past year, Nvidia has become the undisputed leader in the artificial intelligence accelerator market. However, it is not the only one present in this market. Naver has reportedly replaced Nvidia accelerators with similar Intel solutions. [caption id="attachment_78879" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Nvidia GPU to Intel CPU[/caption] Korean company Naver switched from Nvidia GPU to Intel CPU for its artificial intelligence server Naver previously used an Nvidia GPU-based server, but has now replaced it with an Intel-based server. Naver is the largest Internet portal and the most popular search engine in South Korea. In this case, we are talking about a server that is responsible for the AI ​​for the Naver Place mapping service. Global information technology companies are reportedly becoming increasingly frustrated with rising prices for Nvidia GPUs and a global shortage of such GPUs. Analysts say the deal between Naver and Intel will likely reduce Nvidia's influence in the artificial intelligence processor market. Before putting the new server into operation, Naver tested it for about a month to understand whether, in general, Intel CPUs could compete with Nvidia GPUs in the tasks the company needed. Of course, there are no details about this, but since the deal was concluded, it means Naver were satisfied with the results. Additionally, the company says it will likely continue to use Intel's next-generation processors, such as Sapphire Rapids, to upgrade its system.