took a bit of kernel patching to get there (soon it won’t) but i think cybergonk now runs better on my laptop than it did with the rx vega 56 i used to have in my desktop PC. i’m impressed because the iGPU literally draws a tenth of the power

@snacks well the trick with those cards was to undervolt because the stock bios voltages were really high. clock adjustments were then more or less automatic. so really you’d get better performance with lower power consumption if you were lucky

@snacks before the watercooling fad a friend gave me his geforce 560 ti which was some weird special edition with a higher core count. outperformed my gtx980 in compute-heavy stuff (like blender/cycles) but i had to get a massive aftermarket cooler for it. fuckin thing took up 4 slots

more than a grain of truth in those fermi housefire memes back then. glorified space heater, that card.

@cell @snacks only thing that came close to this level of “please just make a new architecture, you can’t even use this thing without aftermarket cooling” was intel’s pentium D. imagine the pentium 4. now imagine a dual-core CPU with that same architecture. they must’ve been really desperate after AMD wiped the floor with their consumer lineup; can think of no other explanation for this

@snacks @cell literal fire hazard without that ln2. doubt the internal overtemp protection would trip before the fireworks burn holes in the carpet