Ryzen AI Halo

I wasn’t expecting the claim of 82% gain vs Strix Point to hold up in third party reviews, but here we are. The gap is pretty astonishing, almost painful considering APUs used to be AMD’s unique thing. Also, interesting point they raise: because Panther Lake gets the full featureset of XeSS 3 (SS +

Worse, there's AI Max+ Pro

AMD have largely been "winning by doing nothing" due to their better driver support stack for gaming on iGPUs, rather than actually throwing superior hardware at it. It's almost ironic how AMD's mobile chipsets are now the "Intel 14nm+++++" of this generation. Constant minor refreshes or even straig

Intel already competes well with AMD in the high end of client with their current core counts. AVX-512, bLLC, sure though, that's catching up. The appeal behind unified core isn't that it's one architecture with different physical design layouts like what AMD does (though I'm sure Intel bean counter

If Nvidia thought RTX Spark would cause the bubble to pop, why on earth would they release it? Same for AMD. Nvidia, AMD, the hyperscalers, the neoclouds, and the labs all know that the frontier models are exclusive to datacenters and even if they weren't, these 1-2 year old chips wouldn't be able t

The AI environment right now is still very new. Local hosting LLM is still a very niche market. For 99% of the AI users, it's still better off going subscription route, because self hosting LLM requires hardware like DGS Spark, AMD Strix Halo or RTX spark now, which is very expensive and the model t

I don't think there's any doubt that TheDrummer's 123b models are great. At least for me, it just comes down to practicality. 70b models at q4 are a comfortable speed and q8 is right on the edge of being too slow. I've tried running behemoth v1.2 but the prefill and generation speed was painful even

There are lots of options but The Steam Machine is typical pricing for sub 3 litre machines. A step up would be Atomman gaming options from Minisforum, high end would be the Rog NUC range and the new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 machines. I suspect there will be Panther lake options out there soon. For indie a

AMD Gorgon Halo Gorgon Halo is confirmed LPDDR5X-only. Gorgon Halo, sadly, is just Strix Halo (Zen5) rebranded. No new silicon honestly.

This smokes AMD Strix Halo if true. Can’t wait to see the iGOU performance though