Guido Vandecasteele (Fully Buffered)

The RTX 5090 has 92,000,000,000 transistors - as many as:
30 GTX 580s or
13 GTX 780Tis or
11 GTX 980Tis or
7 GTX 1080Tis or
5 RTX 2080Tis or
3 RTX 3090s or
1.2 RTX 4090s

The BlueSky influx seems to be over, with daily likers dropping by nearly a million users since last month, though data might be incomplete. I hope the current user base is still enough to keep it going and gain traction in the future.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats

That sucks - glad to hear you're seeing progression!

Further in the light of Intel's tumultuous times and job cuts, it's mad to think Intel is about as big as AMD, NVIDIA and TSMC -combined-, employing over 125000.

The 680 was the cut down small chip Kepler which later became the 770. Nvidia got away using the small chip as their top card. The 780Ti is the real successor of the 580.

250W remained the standard for many generations until Ampere and Ada

For extra context, here's the same graph with revenue since 1996 added. #intel

Bluesky hits 20 million users and counting - watch it keep growing here Bluesky now has more than 20 million users and shows no signs of slowing down.

On Nov 19 they hit 20M and now we've passed 24M, so more like 20% in two weeks?
www.zdnet.com/article/blue...
bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Woops, Paul O's time is 8 years, not 13..

With the retirement of #Intel 's Pat Gelsinger, here's an Intel CEO timeline from 1980 to 2024 with stock value overlay..

Brilliant

Happens to the best of us

Secret mining rig in the attic?

It’s funny how we used to see the GTX 480 as the pinnacle of excess power consumption and heat, with a TDP of 250W. Yet today’s RTX 4090 has a 450W(!!) TDP but doesn’t have that same stigma. I suppose the 480’s loud and inadequate, grill-like cooler played a big part that…

Sold some cards recently which I had been sitting on - SLI setup of two EVGA GTX 285 SSCs

This is partly true - I'd wager modern electronic fuel injection plays a much bigger role than the catalytic converter.

In 2000, Intel promised to reach a 10 GHz CPU clock speed...

In Crysis 3 they were able to outpace an OG GTX TITAN and a Pascal GTX 1060

Here's an old pic of my 3-Way SLI EVGA GTX 570 2560MB setup for your enjoyment

Considering the state of Audi’s new models it would be much in keeping

An Audi-related event or font coincidence?

Ha it's an E38 part

@sniffpetrol.bsky.social you might enjoy this piece of parts bin cost cutting - 2015 Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB front heated seat switch vs rear heated seat switch...
www.autoscout24.nl/aanbod/rolls...

It's a good alternative, but ideally I'd simply like to not have to worry about it

If I were to switch to Mac I’d embrace the Mac suite of apps - pages, mail etc..

You know I might switch to Mac sooner than I thought

That makes sense. Considering the performance and price point they're probably fine, but I'd amused if BMW decided to do the same.

Which other cars come from the factory with LingLong tires? Never seen it before..

I'd love to get a 1440p 27" OLED display, but as long as the text clarity issues remain, it's a big no no. 4K seems to have alleviated some of the inherent issues, but for me 32" is just too big for comfortable use.

Also why the strange DIMM slot placement?? (which ties in with the ATX 8-pins). Even the Z890 Extreme has a regular layout, so why this oddness?