Agreed.

Makes sense. The energy usage probably wouldn’t be noticeable over the course of a year for normal usage, but that’s still a decent trade. A more efficient card that’s also faster. Pretty good.

That’s fair. I’d love to have one for a collection as well. Crypto has indeed churned out some cool mods of pre-existing cards. The machine learning boom might also incentivize more mods of this nature, since that benefits from VRAM just as crypto did.

That sounds about right. Nvidia and Intel seem to have better computer API support than AMD, so it doesn’t surprise me that the A770 performs much better with OpenVINO compared to the 6700. Alchemist is generally powerful in computer anyways, so that helps too.

I agree. I did deep fakes years ago with my 580, and having 16GB of VRAM would’ve been great for dealing with larger models and whatnot, but it’s past its prime at this point. Most budget cards today would be faster than it in compute, so that would be the reasonable option compared to the novelty of a 16GB 580.

Also, is the A770 really 200x faster in SD/LLMs or is that an exaggeration? I’m asking out of curiosity. I did some SD with DirectML and it was certainly slow, around 2 minutes for a set of images.

Heh, caught me off guard with that description.

That video sounds about right. The place that more VRAM would be useful in is with compute, such as machine learning and video and photo editing, CAD, etc. I was doing image upscaling for the frames of a video a while ago, and it’s easy to fill up all 8GB of VRAM by upscaling enough images at once.

But the 580 is old by now, so it wouldn’t make sense to get a 16GB one for that either.

That 16GB 580 sounds cool for memory-constrained scenarios, but it’d obviously make more sense to get a more powerful card entirely.

It might be better to upgrade to AM5 all at once. Since even a 7700X keeps up with the 5800X3D, you could just upgrade to AM5 when you’ve saved up the money. Ryzen 8000 might be a good option, since it’ll be 2nd gen AM5 and naturally more mature.

That’s unfortunate. At least Phoronix is cited in the first sentence.

Checking their website again, I see that I wasn’t looking closely enough at the Ryzen model numbers, considering that the 3rd digit now indicates the generation. The only Zen 4 laptops I saw from Lenovo were ThinkPad, Legion, and LOQ. The only one out of those that is non-gaming is the ThinkPad. The ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 was reviewed recently (I forget by whom, maybe NoteBookCheck) and it was found to be overall better than its Intel counterpart.

However, as you’ve noted, the wifi cards are soldered in. Horrible decision by Lenovo.

Lenovo has a bunch already, but more is welcome in this case.

I haven’t seen anyone defend AMD with this, so I think we’re doing okay for now.

I re-read the article and the original ComputerBase article, and I think I have a better understanding of it now. You can read my update and let me know if I’m still misunderstanding it.

As the commenter under that article stated, it’s odd that AMD designed SEV in a way that the initial value is enough to pass the authentication.

My 580 should be fine so long as I still have software support for my typical applications. I’ll upgrade eventually.

I’d be interested in finding out too. If you’re interested in the Lenovo ones specifically, you should inquire Lenovo about it. Hopefully one of the representatives would know something about it.