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Re: The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition

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Post by opencl » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 2:20 PM UTC

ebg13 wrote: post #2

> AMD is also launching their own “Anniversary Edition” version of the 5700 XT, which features a factory overclock What does factory overclock even mean? Doesn't overclocked mean clocked over what you get from the factory? Wouldn't "factory overclock" just be "higher clock"? Are you paying $50 extra for someone else to push a button for you?

Generally "factory overclock" refers to board partners shipping GPUs at higher clocks than specified by the GPU vendor. i.e. I have a Vega 56 card which AMD specs at 1474Mhz but the default boost clock on mine was 1596Mhz.

The term is rather silly when the card is coming directly from AMD though.

Re: The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition

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Post by ohyea » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 3:18 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #10

kitsunesoba wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Metal compute is available on macOS as well. As far as I can tell, it’s been available since at least 10.11.

Thanks I was not aware of that. So Intel and AMD has to write drivers specifically for it?

You can use Intel PlaidML right now on OSX to utilize your metal supported GPU for machine learning. I have tried the python library with Keras and my GPU (Geforce 760) with no issues.

Re: The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition

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Post by robdachshund » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 10:43 PM UTC

baybal2 wrote: post #4

Why there is a dimple on a fan shroud of XT model, and no dimple on a baseline model?

Not sure why it matters when these are blower cards no one will buy. Everyone will wait for the 3rd party cards with custom boards and coolers.