• 0 Posts
  • 32 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 7th, 2023

help-circle







  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldNVIDIA is full of shit
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    16 hours ago

    Actually…not true. Nvidia recently became bigger in the DC because of their terrible inference cards being bought up, but AMD overtook Intel on chips with all major cloud platforms last year, and their Xilinix chips are slowly overtaking the sales of regular CPUs for special purposes processing. By the end of this year, I bet AMD will be the most deployed brand in datacenters globally. FPGA is the only path forward in the architecture world at this point for speed and efficiency in single-purpose processing. Nvidia doesn’t have a competing product.


  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldNVIDIA is full of shit
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    17 hours ago

    Because they choose not to go full idiot though. They could make their top-line cards to compete if they slam enough into a pipeline and require a dedicated PSU to compete, but that’s not where their product line intends to go. That’s why it’s smart.

    For reference: AMD has the most deployed GPUs on the planet as of right now. There’s a reason why it’s in every gaming console except Switch 1/2, and why OpenAI just partnered with them for chips. The goal shouldn’t just making a product that churns out results at the cost of everything else does, but to be cost-effective and efficient. Nvidia fails at that on every level.



  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldNVIDIA is full of shit
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    72
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    17 hours ago

    My mind is still blown on why people are so interested in spending 2x the cost of the entire machine they are playing on AND a hefty power utility bill to run these awful products from Nvidia. Generational improvements are minor on the performance side, and fucking AWFUL on the product and efficiency side. You’d think people would have learned their lessons a decade ago.


  • Okay, so this is one of Asus’s consumer models that fits in the “Windowstop” category, meaning a lot of the hardware is going to be windows-only for various reasons.

    It’s got an ALC272 which IS supported, but that doesn’t mean the microphone will be, especially if it’s on the USB bus for whatever reason.

    Couple questions:

    1. Do other microphones work, just not internal?
    2. Does your volume control work as expected
    3. Does the webcam work, and does the internal microphone work only when the webcam is engaged?
    4. What do apps like Discord or Zoom detect as available for your inputs?

    As a test, install pavucontrol and qasmixer. Open pavucontrol, and check ALL the input settings (there are many combos). If nothing there shows activity, launch qasmixer, select the ‘hw’ view on the right, then try selecting different mixers and see if one finally clicks.

    If any of these are successful, your mic is detected, and your mixer settings are messed up so it’s not being enabled as an input sink.

    If none of these work, you’re going to have to dig restart, then run sudo dmesg and grep through looking for information regarding audio devices, or similar errors to see if it can’t detect it.

    From the product specs, it looks like it might have Harmon Kardon speakers, which may also tie into the microphone, and that’s going to be problematic if it’s a USB device for a number of reasons I won’t dive into. Overall, this model just seems to be problematic from digging around. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/160d3wj/asus_creator_laptop_q530v_constant_problems/