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So Windows build on Nvidia ARM CPU designed for AI...
Excited Tom Hiddleston GIF by Disney+
 
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What will follow is a symphony of hilarity as MS releases half-ass ARM versions of their suite that are just emulating x86 in a broken ass way that doesn't support any sort of add-on you might want to use since those won't be emulated and will shit the bed when they can't run on ARM.
 
Future PCs will practically be standalone GPUs with an ARM CPU slapped on the side... Which is what consoles are and what PCs should've evolved into for a long time now.

The DGX spark was just a trial run, those devices could end up everywhere.
I'd be okay with that but;

Let me use my own storage

Lp-camm ram, since it's basically onboard ram you can screw on and off - don't stop giving me options.

Case options would be nice

I mean I'm watching the death of home compute into something and i don't feel crazy for thinking it might be locked down. But at least the sparks run Linux.
 
I al alrady seeing linkedin posts with some idits asking if you are ready to see your videocard powering your whole pc... jesus christ, i fu**ing hate this hyperbolic posts (that obviously forget about throttling)

It's an SoC so CPU and GPU on one chip. Just like consoles and Apple devices.
 
It's an SoC so CPU and GPU on one chip. Just like consoles and Apple devices.
And they also throttle, that's my point. It's not the revolution those linkedin posts try to sell (it's however, a welcome rival to AMD and Intel, we can see how x86 arch is alredy better thansk to Apple Mx rivalry).
 
And they also throttle, that's my point. It's not the revolution those linkedin posts try to sell (it's however, a welcome rival to AMD and Intel, we can see how x86 arch is alredy better thansk to Apple Mx rivalry).

Nah....not a revolution by any stretch. Just competition as you say. I'll be interested to see some comparison benchmarks.
 
Nah....not a revolution by any stretch. Just competition as you say. I'll be interested to see some comparison benchmarks.
Numbers I'm seeing are 80-120W targeting 4070 performance. If it's only hitting mobile 4070 performance, that puts it over 25% faster than the Steam Machine which has a discrete GPU.

And decimating AMD's 780M in the Z1/2 Extreme chips which are roughly GTX 1060 in performance. We're already seeing what NVIDIA is pulling off with power constrained Ampere in the Switch 2. The N1X with Blackwell is going to be something to keep an eye on.
 
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