My 9th gen intel is still not the bottleneck of my 120hz 4K/AI rig, not by a longshot.

This is how I see it, 30 + 21, doesn’t come up that often obviously, but also we don’t have to love every composite number. In fact, we hates most of them. Add 51 to the pile.

Yeah I got mind refurbished also, so someone else took the first hit on driving it off the lot (and waiting for it to be built). I guess they didn’t use it to its full extent though. That didn’t make it “cheap” though.

It’s sort of a niche within a niche and I appreciate your sharing some knowledge with me, thanks!

Hmm maybe in the new year I’ll try and update my process. I’m in the middle of a project though so it’s more about reliability than optimization. Thanks for the info though.

I usually run batches of 16 at 512x768 at most, doing more than that causes bottlenecks, but I feel like I was also able to do that on the 3070ti also. I’ll look into those other tools though when I’m home, thanks for the resources. (HF diffusers? I’m still using A1111)

(ETA: I have written a bunch of unreleased plugins to make A1111 work better for me, like VSCode-like editing for special symbols like (/[, and a bunch of other optimizations. I haven’t released them because they’re not “perfect” yet and I have other projects to be working on, but there’s reasons I haven’t left A1111)

I just run SD1.5 models, my process involves a lot of upscaling since things come out around 512 base size; I don’t really fuck with SDXL because generating at 1024 halves and halves again the number of images I can generate in any pass (and I have a lot of 1.5-based LORA models). I do really like SDXL’s general capabilities but I really rarely dip into that world (I feel like I locked in my process like 1.5 years ago and it works for me, don’t know what you kids are doing with your fancy pony diffusions 😃)

Oh I meant for image generation on a 4080, with LLM work I have the 64gb of the Mac available.

It fails whenever it exceeds the vram capacity, I’ve not been able to get it to spillover to the system.

Oh I didn’t mean “should cost $4000” just “would cost $4000”. I wish that the vram on video cards was modular, there’s so much ewaste generated by these bottlenecks.

Apple price gouges for memory, yes, but a 64gb theoretical 4090 would have cost as much in this market as the whole computer did. If you’re using it to its full capabilities then I think it’s one of the best values on the market. I just run the 20b models because they meet my needs (and in open webui I can combine a couple at that size), as I use the Mac for personal use also.

I’ll look into the Amd Strix though.

I know it’s a downvote earner on Lemmy but my 64gb M1 Max with its unified memory runs these large scale LLMs like a champ. My 4080 (which is ACHING for more VRAM) wishes it could. But when it comes to image generation, the 4080 smokes the Mac. The issue with image generation and VRAM size is you can think of the VRAM like an aperture, and the lesser VRAM closes off how much you can do in a single pass.

I assume my niece, who is 13, knows who Tom Hanks is.

So one of my “oh shit I’m old” moments, 10 years ago was a 19 year old friend of my neighbor who had no idea that the Jackson 5 were related to Michael Jackson. He thought they were “Michael Jackson and his 4 black friends”. So, check that assumption lol

Sure but it is still a cross-section of what it is — something with a mass of that bowling ball being gravitationally attracted to something the mass of Earth. The blanket is a demonstration of what spacetime is doing (how it’s being warped) by the gravitational attraction. It so happens that you can also sort of demonstrate how another object can be influenced by the bowling ball’s gravity as it’s being gravitationally attracted by something else (like how a small object would be attracted to the moon which is still being attracted to Earth). Given that nothing can really ever be gravitationally unbound, I think it’s a fine demonstration. I wonder if you’re expecting it would demonstrate something it isn’t demonstrating (like how an object in isolation would influence some other object in isolation).

I think of it as a 2d cross section of the experiment (it’s happening in every direction possible tangent to the ball), which necessarily breaks into a third dimension. In our 3-spatial-dimension reality that’s the best we can do.

yeah I did this almost 30 years ago and could recite it from scratch, haven’t made a cable since hs

and get on a list for using the national football league’s photographic assets without express written permission? facebanned

Not sure if that’s a quirk of your particular laptop but I’ve been using a thunderbolt to dual displayport adapter for years and it works great out of one port to drive a pair of 240hz 1440p displays.