> Nvidia's Blackwell cluster, which will come with eight GPUs, pulls down 15kW of power. That's 15,000 watts of power. Divided by eight, that's 1,875 watts per GPU.
What? A house consumes 400W/hour most of the time. Blackwell consumes 37.5 times MORE than a house!
Put another way: you can either power Blackwell for 1 hour, or your house for… 1.5 DAY.
Modern Linux reminds me of when I started using Linux ca. 2 decades ago.
The graphics server randomly crashing without any usable error message, all applications have different font scaling and style. Screen recording not working (let alone individual windows recording), having to re-login for gaming, desktop menu has no proper icons support etc.
My last thing is starting log-running terminal tasks in a #tmux session because I know that at some point the GUI just stops working and drops me to the login prompt.
@dirk You can pipe the compositor output to a file (or check journald, if using systemd). The compositor crashing shouldn't be a frequent thing, if you can help report this with more details its invaluable to the community.
Font size is a huge annoyance. Applications all use the same scale, but the problem is that there's no standard default font size.
Shout out to #NVIDIA for finally producing a usable, playable, tear-free GPU experience on #Wayland#Linux, only 3 short years after I paid a lot of money for my RTX3070 laptop! #NVK did it first though! I have GRUB set up to be able to select between the two drivers and am excited to see both of them progressing. NVIDIA 555 Beta drivers with the nvidia-beta AUR package.
Even Intel, with a BRAND NEW first generation architecture, had workable drivers within 6 months of release, just saying though...
I know NVIDIA's driver worked for desktop cards for the most part, but it was basically unusable for render offloading (Optimus) configurations in my experience.
Seriously NVIDIA...what is this? Opened Overwatch at the practice range, low settings. Memory slowly crept to like 13GB used over the course of like 10 minutes and CPU was pegged the whole time the game was in focus. Closed the game, look how much memory was freed....the game was also stuttery at 90FPS ish while #NVK gets a smooth 120 or so in the same area.
@root@gamingonlinux Previously been a beta driver couse hardware issues on early RTX series. I have no problem with the shiny new beta features at all. I swear it.
@kravemir They're just posting it. That article doesn't say "NVIDIA is now open-source! Throw away your AMD graphics card, get NVIDIA today!". @9to5linux publishes articles on new update happening in Linux world, that's all.
Just installed #xwayland 24.1! Now to wait for the new version of the #Nvidia drivers. This is part of why I installed an Arch-based distro, I don't want to wait six months to two years between significant updates, I don't have that much extra time to spare in my life for reasons outside me and my body that shouldn't exist but do exist in this world and I don't want to waste it waiting around for new versions of stuff.
If you pick up one of the #Nvidia Orin boards, definitely get an SSD to go along with it. While it can run off an SD card, you’re going to run out of space quickly, and you’ll see a performance hit on complex tasks (like running a local #LLM). #EdgeAI#ai
@gamingonlinux it's about dang time. Nvidia still has tons of 'special sauce' sitting in their proprietary userland drivers and card-side firmware.
All of the other PC video cards have opened up their "how do I configure the hardware to display a framebuffer" and "how do I submit command lists" kernel code without some horrible IP apocalypse happening to them. Having a PC with an Nvidia-tainted kernel means one thing to a user - any kernel bug at all can only be debugged by Nvidia.
I was so happy yesterday! I had a desktop computer that had been sitting around my house for several years, and I decided to bring it back to life. I bought a new NVIDIA RTX 4060 card and a new case for it. I transferred all the old components to the new case and fired it up, installed Fedora Silverblue, and even played a bit of Fallout 4 at full graphics settings. It was such a breeze!
However, today when I tried to turn it on, I think the motherboard just gave out. Looks like it's time for a new CPU, motherboard, and memory.
For the fellow nerds out there, what would you recommend? I'm looking to play some games and compile Rust code.
Companies buy #NVIDIA GPUs like candy to train bullshit #ai models, even though a current Intel or AMD CPU would often easily suffice. But why keep it simple when you can make it complicated and expensive?
The photo of the CEO of #Nvidia, the highest value Company in the world, that personally deliver the first DGX H200, the most powerful #AI supercomputer to #OpenAI, signing it manually with written "to advance calculation Power, for the benefits of AI and humanity" gives a clear idea of how much they believe in what they are doing.
Great news! In general NVidia is taking up speed. Not as good as AMD, mind you, but I think when this year comes to an end we're talking about Wayland problems and not NVidia-Wayland-problems anymore.
