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I built a PC earlier this year which should last me a long, long time. I fully expect my next one to come almost entirely from China
It always did ;)
Hell yeag! If China manages to at least put pressure on Nvidia and AMD it would already be great.
Unfortunately this is irrelevant unless
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There are several independent reviews confirming the performance figures
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These GPUs are widely available to a global market
Even then, we can see with modern trends that Nvidia maintains a passive market lead because they are the default choice because they have a market lead, because they are the default choice, ad infinitum
A few years ago you could've said exact same thing about BYD and Tesla.
Tesla is crap though.
They are, but they used to be considered the gold standard for EVs. Then Chinese companies ramped up production and left Tesla in the dust.
As we saw with Intel GPUs performance isn't even the main issue, it's the drivers. How many games will run on it without crashing or having bizarre performance problems?
ipad was released and it was too expensive. i remember my first chineese tablet. i bought a small tablet from aliexpress. its not great or terrible now they are really good. so they will cath im sure.
Been running Yeston 2gb gpus with AMD chips for a while with no problem. I'd buy the same with SMIC chips as long as a) it lowers the price b) has Linux drivers c) works with Ryzen CPUs.
Geekbench did some testing a month ago, and came up with 'comparable to a gtx 660.'
Yeah that's mentioned in the article, hopefully the new run is representative of an overall improved software situation and they're not specifically targeting geekbench results.
But then I guess even if they are targeting geekbench then this run is representative of the performance of the GPU if they're able to optimize for specific games anyways.
Huawei had Ascend gpus for a while, so I would not call this the first.