Next NVIDIA Line will be named "Hopper"

[porina]

15 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Exactly.  A quasi arbitrary number only used in computers for a brief time.

A byte is still a fundamental unit of data though. I think it is the smallest still used data structure in programming other than a bit itself. Bigger units are almost always a multiple of 8. 

 

Still it makes an interesting point. What would the world be like if everyone used bits as the unit of measure for example.

 

You should get 16GB of ram for gaming.

You should get 128Gb of ram for gaming.

 

A 256GB SSD is ok but a 512GB one isn't much more expensive.

A 2Tb SSD is ok but a 4Tb one isn't much more expensive.

 

And just to turn things around...

 

Everyone should run a 64-bit OS now.

Everyone should run an 8-byte OS now.

 

Ok, that last one feels bad.  

 

Edit: don't tell marketing departments about this. I think it is contained to networking for now where connections are in bits rather than bytes, but bigger numbers are better right?

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, porina said:

Everyone should run a 64-bit OS now.

Everyone should run an 8-byte OS now.

 

Ok, that last one feels bad.  

lol hurts to read

[Dylanc1500]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

lol hurts to read

How about the Intel 8080 being a one byte CPU, or the SNES being a two byte console?

[Bombastinator]

51 minutes ago, Dylanc1500 said:

How about the Intel 8080 being a one byte CPU, or the SNES being a two byte console?

There was a time before 8 bit computing.  It was 4 bit once.

[leadeater]

57 minutes ago, Dylanc1500 said:

How about the Intel 8080 being a one byte CPU, or the SNES being a two byte console?

I always eat my biscuits in one byte

[Dylanc1500]

49 minutes ago, leadeater said:

I always eat my biscuits in one byte

Eating in one byte is the only way not to leave any bits behind.

[Beskamir]

Hmm I wonder how long until Nvidia's naming system overtakes people that are still alive. Looking forward to a Carmack or (if nvidia's narcissistic enough) Huang line.

[mr moose]

15 hours ago, Nicnac said:

 

OmNiVeRsE might be my favorite

Wicked, six new models of the 2060 incoming. 

[CarlBar]

8 hours ago, porina said:

A byte is still a fundamental unit of data though. I think it is the smallest still used data structure in programming other than a bit itself. Bigger units are almost always a multiple of 8. 

 

Yeah, when people are talking coequically about somthing IRL it's not really used, but down at the technical level it';s used all the freaking time.

[Mira Yurizaki]

On 12/12/2019 at 4:11 PM, leadeater said:

The problem with that which also effects SLI/Corssfire is it breaks post processing effects, certain lighting techniques and a few other things. That's why for a long time now SLI/Crossfire used AFR as it is the most compatible and also the simplest to implement.

Assuming that a chiplet based setup can access the same memory pool, this is a moot point because they could write to and reference the same render target

[leadeater]

5 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Assuming that a chiplet based setup can access the same memory pool, this is a moot point because they could write to and reference the same render target

Well it's not because memory bandwidth in GPUs is hundreds of gigabytes per second and currently we don't have anything that would link chiplets and memory stacks together to achieve that. You can do chiplet easily without cross memory dependency easily or low bandwidth requirement, which is why it's going to happen with compute first not graphics because you can have workloads that tick one of both those conditions.