The full ad103 is still far from the limit. And Nvidia is trying to give china the most powerful gpu they can make. Though if the cut is truly at 100 SMs then Nvidia wants to stay within the limit even if the card is overclocked as 100 SMs still feels too step a cut.

Also Ad102 is what allows you 24gb of vram I imagine the extra 14 SMs is iceing on the cake in that case

It’s in Nvidia’s legal team hands what path to take. Likely they would do anything to avoid us lawmakers ire.

I imagine The bar they must clear in the case of a court case is if Nvidia took all reasonable precautions to stop the cards performance from exceeding the limit.

If you read this thread everyones reaction to the idea of software lockdown was ridicule, and there are professionals out there that think the same,there are always bugs and workarounds, it’s just for most secure software the holes aren’t worth the time and effort to look for them ,in AI space however I think the rewards would be worth it to try and crack a software lock .

For example intel has one of the best software lockdown in the industry for their locked CPUs and then those CPUs got a de facto overclock from a motherboard beta bios. The failure here was on intels partners not their software but the overclock happened. If the same where to happen to an Nvidia card any half decent lawyer would ask why didn’t you fuse off the SMs, even if there were legitimate reason for a software lock. The fact there is a sure fire way to stay within the limit is what could damn Nvidia.

The fear here is the us government losses trust in Nvidia and their willingness to play ball if they get up to some shenanigans and make an outright gpu ban.

Keep in mind that doing so would be in the same vain as Volkswagen emissions scandal. Nvidia could end up in Court trying to justify why their products can easily bypass sanctions and they can be hit hard by fines, billions of dollars hard. A special mode used to complay with the law that is not going to be used in reality still got Volkswagen in hot water and with more stringent testing that costed them more on the long run.

Nvidia can’t afford to mess around as making an enemy of us lawmakers on matter national security if a sure fire way for the US to release new requirements that would cripple next gen Nvidia cards

It securing the quantity need that would make this ban hurt, this ban can be effective if it kills Chinese enterprise ability for getting enough cards in a short enough time. And this is not even with considering middle men cost, I am betting on middle men making it shipping a card will cost the same as the card itself, we have seen this during the crypto boom.

The us government is trying to kill Chinese ability to compete economically. Not the ability to compete outright.

I know that the xtx kept up with the 4090 in stable diffusion before the tensorRT update, so there might be some places where the xtx can be a replacement when you build software from the grounds up and willing to lose performance for the benefit of less eyes and hassle on Amd products

The upgrade the deck Needs the most, I love my deck it’s perfect for gaming while around family as opposed to locked up In my room. But the terrible screen really takes away from the game.

I played all the way through chained echos on my deck and noticed that some characters refer to the protagonist red hair, I found that strange because to my eyes the hair was a bright orange, I chalked it up to localization until I watched a video of the game on monitor that I noticed all the colors where off.

It’s genuinely disheartening knowing such a fundamental element is compromised, but hey corners need to be cut and I am still happy with my purchase.