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Opened review for #FreeBSD Bug 287268 on Phablicator as Differential Revision D50697, which adds latest New Feature Branch (NFB) of #nvidia #GPU drivers as x11/nvidia-driver-devel, x11/linux-nvidia-libs-devel and graphics/nvidia-drm[|-510|-515|-61|-66]-kmod-devel.
Once accepted and landed, it would track the latest version of whichever NFB or Production Branch of drivers. Beta Branch of drivers wouldn't be tracked.
reviews.freebsd.org/D50697

reviews.freebsd.org⚙ D50697 [NEW PORT] x11/nvidia-driver-devel, x11/linux-nvidia-libs-devel, graphics/nvidia-drm[,510,515,61,66]-kmod-devel: Add new port

If this interests anyone to know, the NVIDIA RTX A2000 with 6GB of VRAM can run at a blazing 2.85 to/s for a 14B, 45 to/s for a 4B Q8, or 7B Q4_M, and 150 to/s for a 1B! Basically useless for LLMs. It consumes only 70W, there are more expensive versions with up to 16GB of VRAM. Obviously, being a NVIDIA product, it supports CUDA (and I think this is a real problem if one has to depend on a single vendor for the "future").
It is a great GPU otherwise, perfect for my needs.

South Korea’s President-elect Lee Jae-myung has pledged 100 trillion won ($75 billion) in public-private AI investment over five years, with plans to secure 50,000 GPUs and calls to elevate the Ministry of Science and ICT to deputy prime minister level to strengthen national AI competitiveness.
#YonhapInfomax #ArtificialIntelligence #LeeJaeMyung #MinistryOfScienceAndICT #GPU #100TrillionWonInvestment #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

Yonhap Infomax · [Lee Jae-myung Administration] Urgent Need for AI Control Tower—Calls Grow to Elevate Ministry of Science and ICT to Deputy Prime Minister Level
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When those who are supposedly profiteering the most from #AI #Storage needs are warning about the extreme over-demand for that #bubble, you know shit's going bad.

Happy #Greedflation everyone, enjoy your #AIslop!

youtube.com/watch?v=0inAOVCI1K

The #ComputerFrontiers25, co-organised by our colleagues Josef Weidendorfer and Amir Raoofy, starts today in Cagliari/Sardinia. It's all about new #computer technologies and system architectures.

Josef and Amir will present a tool for the systematic comparison of different #GPU programming models, which was developed at the Technische Universität München and the LRZ. You can read more about it in the slides of this post.

Find out more about #CF25:
computingfrontiers.org/2025/pr

Any #Linux #kernel ,
#graphics or #GPU people out there?

I'm trying to understand the relationship between the #amgdpu driver shipped with the kernel; and the "andgpu-dkms" driver that comes with #ROCm .

Specifically, with a recent enough kernel, do we really need to install the ROCm version of the driver? Does the ROCm version contain stuff the general driver does not? Or is the ROCm stack (esp. libhsa) tightly tied to a very specific version of the driver?

Apple testete MacBook Pro mit M3 Ultra: Details aus internem Leak
Apple kündigte Anfang des Jahres den Mac Studio mit dem leistungsstarken M3-Ultra-Chip an. Bislang ist dieser High-End-Chip exklusiv in diesem Desktop-Modell verfügbar. Ein aktueller Le
apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/appl
#Mac #News #Akkulaufzeit #Apple #Chip #CPU #GPU #HighEnd #Leak #M3Ultra #MacStudio #MacBookPro #notebook #UnifiedMemory #Wrmeentwicklung

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An #Nvidia spox said the company was evaluating its "limited" options. "Until we settle on a new product design & receive approval from the #US govt, we are effectively foreclosed from #China's $50 billion #DataCenter market."

China remains a huge #market for Nvidia, accounting for 13% of its sales in the past financial year. It's the 3rd time Nvidia has had to tailor a #GPU for the world's 2nd-largest #economy after restrictions from the US who is keen to stymie Chinese #tech development.

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The #GPU or graphics processing unit will be part of #Nvidia's latest generation #Blackwell-architecture #AI processors & is expected to be priced between $6,500 & $8,000, well below the $10,000-$12,000 the #H20 sold for, acc/to 2 of the sources.

The lower price reflects its weaker specifications & simpler manufacturing requirements.

It will be based on Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a server-class graphics processor & will use conventional GDDR7 memory instead of more advanced high bandwidth memory.