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Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

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Re: Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

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250GB/s on unified memory? That doesn’t sound right, it’s very low

It's still regular CPU memory, based on DDR. It's 256 bits wide but it's not GDDR. Unified just means that the CPU and GPU use the same physical memory bank. It does not make memory magically faster.

Re: Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

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This is more of an ad, not a review, and reads like the author has hardly any experience with the things he's trying out. That Z Image Turbo diffusion model would've also run on many consumer GPUs and with way higher performance for a fraction of the price. Misleading.

It's Microcenter. Don't get your reviews from a retailer.

Sounds like a standard tech reviewer / influencer.

Re: Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

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Isn't this basically the same a Framework Desktop which has been out for quite a while? Does it improve on it in any way? https://frame.work/desktop

The framework desktop also has a small advantage where you can buy it as a standard ITX board and purchasing it that way gives you access to a 4x PCIe slot.

Buying it that way also kicks the price down a decent amount.

Re: Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

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Does anyone else feel like it would be great to be able to purchase $4000 AI box but 128 gigs is not enough. If I spend all that money and it doesn’t really do what I wanted to do, whats the point? It’s kind of like general aviation where you can go buy a Cessna but it’s only going to realistically get you somewhere you could drive anyways but do you really wanna spend that mush cash to get road trip distance at slig…

8 months ago you could get one of these for ~$2K. Well, not this exact item, but systems like the Framework Desktop with the same CPU and memory configuration.

It was a good deal for $2K. For $4K? I'm not so sure. Of course, most of the cost is RAM, so what can we do?

Re: Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

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post #6

This is more of an ad, not a review, and reads like the author has hardly any experience with the things he's trying out. That Z Image Turbo diffusion model would've also run on many consumer GPUs and with way higher performance for a fraction of the price. Misleading.

That's true, but that's just one model that has some easier setup in the ecosystem. It's not easy to get a consumer gpu that has 128Gb of vram, so while the Halo chip isn't as performant, the ceiling for running larger models is higher.

Re: Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

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It seems like there is a very health space for an MOE targeted GPU where it has essentially an 5070ti with 16gb ish GDDR7 but then also has 128 GB LPDDR5x (or even just DDR5 as expansion dimms on it?). Putting this into the same card would likely reduce the transfer hit when a cache miss happened and the gpu had to load from the slower LPDDR5x. No need to have PCIe 5x16 limiting memory transfer if it is on the card.…

Sounds like Bolt's GPU
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