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palmfacehn ◴[] No.42619850[source]
Would love to see something like this with an ATX form factor, socketed GPU, socketed GPU and non-soldered RAM.
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blackoil ◴[] No.42620625[source]
Isn't that just a regular PC with one or more 5090 or equivalent workstation GPU?
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palmfacehn ◴[] No.42620742[source]
There would be unified GPU/CPU memory and an ARM processor that isn't soldered to the board.
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1. pbalcer ◴[] No.42621669{3}[source]
One of the reasons why they can do unified memory efficiently is because the CPU/GPU is a single SoC. If you separate them, you end up with a normal PC architecture, with memory having to go through a PCIe bus. This is possible to do with reasonable latency and bandwidth (thanks to CXL), but we haven't seen that in consumer hardware. Even in server space I think only MI300 supports CXL, and even then I don't think it's something AMD particularity promotes.

Personally I think Strix Halo workstations may come with expendable memory, storage and free PCIe slots. But then you have to deal with ROCm...