128-core MONSTER Arm PC: faster than a Mac Pro!

You gotta hand it to the Steam on Linux on Arm community. They're a committed bunch!

I've lived in the Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, and related software world. I didn't have the money for it, but thankfully my University did allow us to have such nice tools back in the day. I was able to add more networking capability and rendering offloading before it seemed to be done in those days. I didn't imagine Linux and open source to be able to collaborate that well then, but now we have many projects like Kdenlive, Natron, Blender, etc. Of course these can't compare to the seamless relationship in Apple's software for video production, but since you mentioned you can't deliver your video workload without Final Cut, let's see how far that is true. Can you show a test of video production on ARM hardware and how close it feels to Apple? I feel like I can do so much now except for how easy Motion made things over designing them directly in Blender, or Natron, and some OpenFX tools.

Every Mac today is essentially a closed box. No upgrades, everything external with limitations. Wires everywhere, no real flexibility left. Mind you the OS is great.

i wonder if android world work?

That sounds cool and all...but can I check my email and watch YT vids on it :)

Where can you buy_

What’s the cost to build?

yey u tested ksp! best game ever

Any time you switch machine architectures you're running a bunch of compatibility layers if you're running programs written for a different machine architecture. If no such translation/compat layers exist, your program isn't going to run.

But is it more efficient?

Has anyone been able to install Ubuntu Server for ARM 23.10? No matter what I do, the installer crashes on me.

With how inexpensive these workstations are I am considering my next main computer to be an ampere. Seems like the logical evolution of high performance computing and the fact it is compatible with nvidia really sells it!

i pretty confident nvidia arm cpu gonna have built in x86 emulation hardware layer to run customize vkd3d-proton

almost any pc is faster then a Mac Pro

Kinda surprised Doom gave issues. Doom runs on pretty much everything

What software are you gonna run on that?

there did you get ampere cpu ?

Windows is obsolete

Of all things, Doom did not work?!

Cuda usually has to be installed seperatly. But I guess somebody already wrote that.

How much would this cost to purchase and where? I’m broke but curious lol

sounds good, should be able to run opensource 7b&13B LLM locally, i need to check if available in Austria

Microsoft and nVidia really needs to Pick It Up a bit, they're kind-of falling behind, nVidia was far behind even when Linux was concerned back in the early days AMD and nVidia really were behind and a lot of the GOOD drivers were Community Made, which never reall made much sense to me since THEY are the ones who designed the Hardware, they should know MORE about how to compile Drivers for Ther Cards and Chips than a random Community Member.. I always wanted to see if anyone ever ported Linux to a Commodore c64, 128 or Amiga, I had an Amiga once for like a week then it got stolen and I always wanted to Build One Custom using Original Hardware and even some Custom Chips and Boards from the Amiga Community. I like Obscure Hardware and Software (os's) like RISC-os and Haiku (originally developed by apple, but now a Community Project for History. Computers are pretty interesting, there is a LOT of machines out there that no one has ever even heard about ...or seen... and OS projects (not Windows or Linux or BSD based, fully custom) - but we never hear about them much... GEOS on the Commodore was Cool for it's time, unfortunately, the Commodore Hard Disk was pretty impossible to find... if you wanted one you probably tried to build one for yourself... Workbench on Amiga was cool... Amiga could have been something if the company didn't fail... a lot of the Graphics Hardware we use today was Birthed out an Amiga, it's crazy how much it's evolved since then, its was like watching a Tadpole turn into a Planet ... Obscure Hardware and Ideas (like this computer you have once was just an Idea) should get much more air time...

I want one of these so bad... I remember a company that was selling Fully Custom RISC-v CPUs or ARM ... I CANT REMEMBER... but you could specify every single aspect of the CPU it was a few years ago, i forget where I saw it, they even had a server setup where you could log into a Real Machine (i think) and dig into a test run of your Custom CPU

Fastest desktop that can't do anything fast

Hello Jeff, why not video production? Davinci Resolve not yet compatible with Ampere?

Too much clickbait for my taste

Thank you for this video. Have been looking at that dev kit for a while now. But hesitated to buy - much to the lack of information and the "dead" forum threads.

The ram sticks you went with - what specs did you go with?
Do you have any recommendations or "beware of" when it comes RAM- modules?

Hopefully this system will rock with FreeBSD! Placed my order today =D

Nvidia says T I

Did you try manually setting the number of threads inside Cinebench? File menu, settings, put the tick in, set desired number of threads.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Jeff! I wasn't really aware just how compatible things were with ARM on Linux. I have to admit though, the LLM performance was actually rather poor. A used RTX 3090 (maybe $750?) could run that llama 2 13b model at 10x the inference speed. I'll be very interested once the GPU support with ARM is worked out as that seems like the main issue.

O.K...But now is not good.When you have normall cpu + board + ram + ssd + gpu + psu - all thinks works.When you buy expensive arm + board + ram + ssd + gpu + psu - some thinks works - this is bad...I like to see test arm vs normall pc - wattage and other things?

Ew. You say it as "tie"? We have to cancel you now Jeff.

Can it run Kubernetes? You could schedule hundreds of pods on a thing like that .oO

Imagine that machine can't runs games of Windows 🤡

You didn't mention the 16 core neural processor. comments?

Is there such thing as mining cryptocurrency on these beefy ARM CPUs? I think it would be interesting given the efficiency of the chips and sheer core count they have. I would love to see a little bit on if it would even work or not.

Can you edit on this and use it as an actual PC? How does this compare editing and transcoding against a Mac Studio?

Great stuff, thank you, Jeff!

how about instaling hackintosh on that CPU

You should try a software rendering pipeline on this.

wow
amazing

Nvidia pronounces it ti not tie they said it stands for titanium not ties. One employee is not all of nvidia.

God I wish there was a microcenter near me

If apple would merely support standard ddr5 ram (albeit it's slower than on chip ram), and pcie graphics cards, with drivers provided by manufacturers..... mac could actually be a decent platform....

Man... Apple REALLY did people dirty with the 2019 mac pro....

just curious did you try x265 cpu encoding? it gives nice quality for bitrate and you have the cores

I’m unfollowing you for how you applied your thermal paste. 😅

Windows on arm is not close to happen

That's a lot of RAM! Holy cow!