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Edward Snowden doing GPU reviews? This timeline is becoming weirder every day.
Legitimately thought this was a hard-drive.net post
"Whistleblows" as if he's some kind of NVIDIA insider.
I bet he just wants a card to self host models and not give companies his data, but the amount of vram is indeed ridiculous.
Exactly, I'm in the same situation now and the 8GB in those cheaper cards don't even let you run a 13B model. I'm trying to research if I can run a 13B one on a 3060 with 12 GB.
You can. I'm running a 14B deepseek model on mine. It achieves 28 t/s.
Oh nice, that's faster than I imagined.
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I'll keep believing this is a theonion post
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Every time I see a headline that contains the word “slams,” I want to slam my head on the table
And the user who posted it. I really wish there was a simple way to block sensational posts from my feed.
Thanks for giving me the idea. BRB, making a keyword filter for the words "slams" and "slammed".
Careful now, you might end up with few news posts
Don't forget blasted and clapped back.
Every one who bought the 7900xtx laughing their arse off running 20GiB models with MUCH better performance than a 4080/4080Super lol
I’m an idiot that waited. Saw a sapphire nitro 7900xtx on sale for €900 but didn’t get it holding out for the 5800. Now those are €1400 if you can find one and the 7900xtx is out of stock.
Have a 3080ti though so I’m not too bad off, just annoyed.
Don't feel bad, neither AMD or NVIDIA (or Intel for that matter) have produced anything worthy of note in the GPU space since the 1080Ti or 6800XT. Keep your 3080ti, it'll serve you well for now. Hopefully Morethreads or Intel make something interesting and disrupt the market although it's unlikely. NV and AMD have the GPU spaced fairly locked with IP (and cash reserves) that would drown any competitor in legalese for a millennium. The 7900xtx is a helluva card because it competes with overpriced NVIDIA hw, in any sane world it would be a 7800 class card and priced accordingly. (like the 5080 is actually a 5070)
"Whistleblows". What a moronic take, in this regard taking the word of Edward Snowden is like taking the word of a random stranger in the street. At least we know on what Edward Snowden is likely spending his days on in Russia: Gaming. Wouldn't blame him, it's not like he can freely travel.
That headline is so stupid that I refuse to read the article
He's not wrong
I'll wait for the Julian Assange review.
I legit tried to understand how a lackluster VRAM capacity could spy on us.
Just wanna say, cool username
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Edward Snowdon reads a spec sheet
Was this written by AI? The headline word salad contains all the buzzwords.
Edward Snowden PILEDRIVES the Nvidia RTX 50 series into a crowded bitcoin farm
"Trash fuckin cuck card kys"
Don't that distract you from that fact that in 2025 Edward Snowden threw Nvidia's RTX 50 series off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
What the fuck is wrong with this timeline.
Do the amish accept atheists?
How would Snowden get a hold of one of these in Russia? Maybe through an intermediary in Kazakhstan?
Then again it's hard finding one here even in the US since they all went out of stock within 5 minutes of being listed.
According to russian over at r/hardware GPUs have become cheaper in Russia since the ban as they are now being smuggled instead of imported via Europe with all extra cost that implies.
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So now we care what Edward Snowden says about vram? We need him to tell us that it should be 24 gigs?
Snowden added, "As someone who wants to sweep away corruption, there's a lot to like in the new ShamWow. And for those really tough, dirty stains, there's OXYCLEAN!!! With ShamWow and Oxyclean, you don't need to be Rushin'!"
An infamous former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower has unexpectedly shared his opinion on the state of the graphics card market.
Man who did big cool thing once also has opinions on unrelated thing, news at 11.
Shut the fuck up, Snowden.You had everyone behind you until you defected to Russia. There's no free lunch and you had a lot of info Putin would like to have. Oddly enough things really started getting bad shortly therafter.
He was being chased by the US government, and Assange proved that being in an US allied country will still get your arrested/tortured. What other options did Snowden had other than escaping to Russia?
IMO don't hate the player, hate the game.
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things really started getting bad shortly therafter
Things started getting bad waaaaay earlier than that.
Yeah that does seem a bit weird, my four year old RX 6800 has 16 GB VRAM already
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I can’t see the context because it’s freaking X, but I bet that’s in reference to local ML hosting.
There’s a big movement to get away from corporate AI, and I don’t need to explain the importance of that to the Lemmy crowd. But Nvidia is indeed artificially crippling consumer VRAM to stop them from being used for that too much, and protect their enterprise GPU market.
The most bizzare thing is that AMD is inexplicably complicit even though they have like zero market share in that space. 48GB 7900s (and so on) would have obliterated Nvidia and sold like hotcakes, much less actually using their modular memory controller architecture… But no? They restricted their OEMs from doing that because they… Don’t want money, I guess.
AMD is much of a scum as Nvidia is or Intel was, that’s why DeepSeek is something that came from China and you would need a new player completely outside of the current chain.
I don’t see how that’s relevant, Deepseek was trained on, and is served on, Nvidia hardware.
And while I don’t disagree about AMD gouging, if AMD was to act like “scum,” they would screw over Nvidia’s pricing strategy.
But… they don’t. And lose for it.
It’s some combination of ignorance, corporate stupidity and straight up collusion, but it’s also the opposite of greed.
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Wait, did the guy refuse to call AMD's 9070 by its official name out of spite there at the end? Is this a weird tech The Onion thing?
AMD, as usual, misses an opportunity here. The 5xxx series is exactly Fermi again (they even removed hotspot data so reviewers would miss the throttling). AMD could leverage the nostalgia of one of ATI's best gens and call the cards 9700 and 9700pro. Damn, those were the days. (since 4750 conflicts with current scheme)
Probably a mistake, considering the current generation follows the RX 7_00 naming pattern.
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