Hardware support: Nvidia GTC 2020 Keynote Megathread

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• Nvidia GTC 2020 Keynote Megathread
• Taiwan Company to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
• Samsung unveils new SSD with PCIe Gen 4 support up to 6,500 MB/s read speeds
• First HDMI 2.1 gaming monitor for PC and next-gen consoles announced
• Found an old CNN article about HDDs from 1998. Whopping 33mbit per second!
• New AMD B550 Motherboards Are Incompatible With Earlier Ryzen CPUs
• What the A100 means for RTX 3000 GPUs
• MediaTek Dimensity 820 5G chipset to get launched on May 18
• [Digital Foundry] Tech Analysis: Unreal Engine 5 on PS5 - Epic's Next-Gen Leap Examined In-Depth
• The Alienware Area-51m’s upgradable dream has failed in just one year
• Cheap(ish) 25GbE coming? - NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 25GbE for All Launched
• I reviewed some 2.5" HDD enclosures from amazon to reuse old notebook drives as externals (now without "self promotion")
• Keeping Cool with Thelio: The Secrets of Thelio’s Thermals
• The 6 best wireless mice you can buy
• (The Verge) Samsung’s QLED-display Galaxy Book laptops are now available
• Remember COMPAQ? – Where Are They Now

Nvidia GTC 2020 Keynote Megathread Posted: 14 May 2020 05:58 AM PDT Nvidia GTC 2020 Keynote Part I - CEO Jensen Huang Introduces Data-Center-Scale Accelerated Computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOf2S7OzFEg Part II - NVIDIA RTX - A New Era for Computer Graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeScfkCm3b4 Part III - GPU Accelerating HPC and Scientific Computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpeGZ7nm0J0 Part IV - NVIDIA Merlin for Recommendation Systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWe02O2po1U Part V - NVIDIA Jarvis for Conversational AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ey76WVYkCI Part VI - NVIDIA A100 Data Center GPU Based on NVIDIA Ampere Architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onbnb_D1wC8 Part VII - NVIDIA EGX A100 Converged Accelerator and Isaac Robotics Platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phP_c3zi82g Part VIII - NVIDIA Ampere Architecture Comes to Orin for Autonomous Vehicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTDPdp0WS3c Part IX - Conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRtRA7gA46M Official Information/Blogs Ampere Architecture in-depth The A100 Tensor Core GPU The DGX SuperPOD DGX A100 EGX A100 HGX A100 Multi-Instance GPU CUDA 11 Double-Precision Tensor Cores DRIVE moving to Ampere CloudXR Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit Nvidia JARVIS Marbles RTX Minecraft New Worlds Trailer Minecraft 5 New Worlds avalible for download Minecraft RTX Media Reports Anandtech - NVIDIA Ampere Unleashed: NVIDIA Announces New GPU Architecture, A100 GPU, and Accelerator ServeTheHome - NVIDIA EGX A100 Launched Tesla Plus Mellanox Vision ServeTheHome - NVIDIA DGX A100 Leapfrogs Previous-Gen ServeTheHome - NVIDIA Tesla A100 4x GPU HGX Redstone Platform TheNextPlatform - Nvidia Unifies AI Compute with Ampere GPU Techpowerup - NVIDIA CEO Introduces NVIDIA Ampere Architecture, NVIDIA A100 GPU Tom's Hardware - Nvidia Unveils Its Next-Generation 7nm Ampere A100 GPU for Data Centers, and It's Absolutely Massive Forbes - NVIDIA Launches Ampere A100 GPU For Data Center Computing And AI Videocardz - NVIDIA announces Ampere GA100 GPU (Updating as it goes on; Please also comment on interesting reports/articles I missed, thanks) submitted by /u/Nekrosmas [link] [comments]

Taiwan Company to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona Posted: 14 May 2020 12:22 PM PDT submitted by /u/Hesperax [link] [comments]

Samsung unveils new SSD with PCIe Gen 4 support up to 6,500 MB/s read speeds Posted: 14 May 2020 10:03 AM PDT submitted by /u/Dumpy55 [link] [comments]

First HDMI 2.1 gaming monitor for PC and next-gen consoles announced Posted: 14 May 2020 09:11 AM PDT submitted by /u/grantbradleyy2013 [link] [comments]

Found an old CNN article about HDDs from 1998. Whopping 33mbit per second! Posted: 14 May 2020 10:10 PM PDT http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9806/12/harddrive.idg/ ​ Brought back a lot of memories dealing with IDE cables and those stupid slave pins on the back. submitted by /u/Spykez0129 [link] [comments]

New AMD B550 Motherboards Are Incompatible With Earlier Ryzen CPUs Posted: 14 May 2020 03:51 PM PDT submitted by /u/COMPUTER1313 [link] [comments]

What the A100 means for RTX 3000 GPUs Posted: 14 May 2020 09:34 AM PDT A100 Architecture The A100 was revealed as the new replacement for the V100 data center GPU. It's primarily used for machine learning and HPC workloads. Its primary features are its 3rd gen tensor cores that enable huge performance increases in machine learning task. It also features many server specific features like ECC memory, virtualization, and high performance networking. This GPU has no display drivers and will never be available to gamers. It also cost a small fortune; $199K for an 128 core ryzen server with 8 A100 GPUs. However, we can learn a bit about what a gaming GPU based on the Ampere architecture would mean. Size and Density The A100 is huge 826 mm2 on TSMC 7nm N7. It has 54.2B transistors giving it a transistor density of 66 MTr/mm2. This 60% higher density than AMD's 7nm Navi GPU. Clock Speed A100 boost clock is 1410 MHz compared to the 1530 Mhz for the V100. Gaming GPUs boost up 1815 Mhz for Turing on 12nm and 1905 Mhz for Navi on 7nm. These facts point to Nvidia using the high density libraries from TSMC instead of the high performance libraries normally used on gaming GPUs. High density libraries are generally using on low power mobile SOCs to minimize cost and power consumption. But in order to fit the mammoth 54.2B transistors on a single chip, they had to sacrifice clock speed. And while high density libraries normally have low power consumption, the GA100 chip is so massive it still consumes 400 W! The A100 is also quite cut down from the GA100 chip. It has only 108 active SM out 128 available on the chip. This way indicate Nvidia is having trouble getting good yields on such a huge chip. Consumer GPU will NOT be built on high density and will not be 826 mm2. There is no reason to sacrifice clockspeed. The A100 also has no Ray Tracing hardware so this chip will clearly never be a RTX GPU. Unfortunately, the GA100 chip tells us very little about the chips in the RTX 3000 GPUs Architecture The compute structure of the Ampere SM is nearly identical to Turing. The only change is a larger L1 and L2 cache and upgraded tensor cores. The basic compute structure and capabilities is unchanged and this means the IPC of Ampere GPUs in gaming will be similar to Turing with the larger cache meaning ~10% performance improvement at the same clocks. Ray Tracing: The A100 does not contain RT cores so we know nothing about the RTX 3000 ray tracing performance New features: As expected, the A100 has PCI-E 4. It also has faster NVLink. But it only has 8Gb more memory than the V100. There is no DLSS 3.0. Nvidia strongly pushed the still relatively new DLSS 2.0 as there upscaling tech of the future. There is no tensor memory compression or NVcache. These rumors are completely wrong. Don't trust these leakers. Conclusion The A100 doesn't actually tell us much about any new RTX GPUs. The core features are more powerful tensor cores, GPU virtualization, and powerful networking. No new gaming features were discussed. Unfortunately, we learned very little about gaming GPUs. They will have a slight improvement to IPC thanks to bigger caches but size, power consumption, and performance CANNOT be gleaned from this announcement. Sorry. Do not believe any rumors about how this reveals the new 3080 Ti or any other charts of specs for new 3000 series GPU. Those leaks were wrong. This is only a replacement for the V100 :( submitted by /u/yellowstone6 [link] [comments]

MediaTek Dimensity 820 5G chipset to get launched on May 18 Posted: 14 May 2020 11:24 PM PDT submitted by /u/DerpSenpai [link] [comments]

[Digital Foundry] Tech Analysis: Unreal Engine 5 on PS5 - Epic's Next-Gen Leap Examined In-Depth Posted: 14 May 2020 08:08 AM PDT submitted by /u/Geneaux [link] [comments]

The Alienware Area-51m’s upgradable dream has failed in just one year Posted: 14 May 2020 10:17 AM PDT submitted by /u/kikimaru024 [link] [comments]

Cheap(ish) 25GbE coming? - NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 25GbE for All Launched Posted: 14 May 2020 06:08 AM PDT submitted by /u/JavaCrunch [link] [comments]

I reviewed some 2.5" HDD enclosures from amazon to reuse old notebook drives as externals (now without "self promotion") Posted: 15 May 2020 02:04 AM PDT layout: post title: 2.5" HDD Enclosure Reviews caption: testing 4 2.5" HDD Enclosures from amazon published: true categories: [Tech] tags: [Tech, HDD, SSD] Reviews: PosuGear Amazon Cable: 41cm | Case: 56g | LED: blue (cool effect with the clear case) | Dimensions:128x79x14mm <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/pos1.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/pos2.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> Pros: cool looking case cable can stay in while changing drives Cons: not really intuitive to open HDD rattels inside closing mechanism isn't secured and it feels kinda flimsy while pushing on the case kinda difficulty to get the drive out because you can't push from below fingerprints are very visible <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/pos1tb.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/pos250.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/pos160.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> Inateck Amazon |Cable: 50cm|Case: 69g|LED: blue|Dimensions:126x81x15mm| <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ina1.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ina2.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> Pros: easy to get the drive in and out additional foam pad in the box soft padding inside great locking mechanism no movement inside fingerprints almost not visible Cons: kinda hard to see the direction the drive has to go cable has to detach to cahnge the drive <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ina1tb.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ina250.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ina160.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> Arioue Amazon |Cable: 32cm|Case: 79g|LED: green|Dimensions:122x78x13mm| <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ari1.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ari2.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> Pros: very intuitive design nice metal case no movement inside easy and simpel to change the drive cable can stay attached while changing drives no visible fingerprints 4 additional screws Cons: some minor ruff metall edges <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ari1tb.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ari250.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ari160.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> Salcar Amazon |Cable: 52cm|Case: 68g|LED: blue|Dimensions: 126x80x14mm| <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/sal1.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/sal2.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> Pros: solid locking mechanism drive dosen't move inside foam on the inside additional foam pad in the box very easy to change the drive Cons: some ruff plastic edges fingerprints very visible all over the case kinda bad manufacturing quallity <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/sal1tb.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/sal250.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/sal160.png" alt="graph" title="read write speeds" width="30%" height="auto" /> Sammury: Functionality: PosuGear Inateck Arioue Salcar Price[€]: 8.99 12.99 11.99 8.99 Weight[g]: 56 69 79 68 Cable[cm]: 41 50 32 52 Case Mechanism*: 2/5 5/5 4/5 5/5 Drive swap**: 2/5 4/5 5/5 4/5 Duribility: 1/5 4/5 5/5 3/5 Highest Score: 7 13 14 19 how good the case opens and closes **how easy it is to change the drive Speed:   PosuGear Inateck Arioue Salcar 1tb Seagate (st1000lm024) Read[MB/s]: 89 89 90 89 Write[MB/s]: 59 48 48 59 Access[msec]: 17 17 17 18 250gb Hitachi(5K500.B-250) Read[MB/s]: 85 85 85 67 Write[MB/s]: 49 48 49 43 Access[msec]: 9 9 9 18 160gb Hitachi (7k200-160) Read[MB/s]: 61 62 62 50 Write[MB/s]: 41 42 42 35 Access[msec]: 8 7 7 15 Highest Score: 5 6 8 1 Looks:   PosuGear Inateck Arioue Salcar Material: clear plastic matt black plastic brushed metall glossy plastic Dimensions[mm]: 128x79x14 126x81x15 122x78x13 126x80x14 LED: blue blue green blue Build Quality: 2/5 4/5 5/5 4/5 Highest Score: 2 4 5 4 Overall Score:   PosuGear Inateck Arioue Salcar Score: 14 23 27 24 Stars: 2.6/5 4.3/5 5/5 4.4/5 Winner: Arioue <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/pictures/enclosure/ari3.jpg" alt="product" title="product picture" width="48%" height="auto" /> submitted by /u/Hisfantor [link] [comments]

Keeping Cool with Thelio: The Secrets of Thelio’s Thermals Posted: 14 May 2020 04:25 PM PDT submitted by /u/SlickLabia [link] [comments]

The 6 best wireless mice you can buy Posted: 14 May 2020 09:51 PM PDT submitted by /u/SinbadMarinarul [link] [comments]

(The Verge) Samsung’s QLED-display Galaxy Book laptops are now available Posted: 14 May 2020 12:01 PM PDT submitted by /u/RandomCollection [link] [comments]

Remember COMPAQ? – Where Are They Now Posted: 14 May 2020 05:53 PM PDT submitted by /u/teutonicnight99 [link] [comments]

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