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Importance of the number of PCIe lanes
As I understand it, PCIe 4 has double the throughput of PCIe 3. Thus, PCIe 3 x 16 has the same throughput as PCIe 4 x 8, correct?
Correct.
A RX 6600 with its 8 lanes in my PCIe 3 system would have ...
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How to run a 230W laptop + GPU from a USB-C docking station?
You'll need to use a barrel charger or allow the battery to drain down
The Lenovo P16 Gen 2 with the RTX 4000 supports USB PD 3.0, which maxes out at 100W (20V/5.0A). While there are USB-C chargers ...
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Does GeForce RTX 4080 would solve these issues against Radeon RX 6800XT?
Since your use case prefers CUDA Nvidia GPU's are always the best option, although the Linux drivers are kinda bad. Nvidia is not faster in games, but since the 4080 is 1 gen newer than the 6800XT, it ...
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Card to add second 4k display output to workstation
Pretty much every GPU released in the last several years has 4K support and HDMI/DisplayPort connections. Even the "bottom of the barrel" GPUs have these features now.
The NVidia GT 1030 is ...
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Linux Notebook with AMD Ryzen CPU, dedicated AMD GPU, USB4
The thing is with USB4 is that originally it was Intel only (in the form of Thunderbolt) so right now there are indeed not a lot of computers that have that connector. I currently use the Framework 13 ...
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How to adapt an integrated graphics card as if it were dedicated to another PC
This is impossible except on a multi-cpu board. Since the integrated GPU lives inside the CPU it is impossible to put it on a PCIe card. Only dedicated GPUs are reusable across different CPUs
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Rtx 3060 or ps5: what should I opt for gaming?
3060 is way better than the ps5 even with 16gb of vram because ull have at least 16 gbs of ram on that PC to start up application and some of the ram helps the GPU out in games so if u have 12 gb and ...
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Would a new graphics card improve my machine's performance?
This might be a combination of different issues
Using a HDD for windows along with gaming and as more updates are pushed out will definitely give you that sluggish feeling and more so over time.
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Laptop recommendations for these specs
Wait a few weeks
Intel and AMD just released new laptop chips, in the form on Meteor Lake (Core Ultra) and Hawk Point (Ryzen 8000) chips respectively at CES 2024. A bunch of laptop manufacturers ...
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Does my motherboard support the NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU?
How do I do determine if the NVIDIA RTX A6000 will fit in the case?
The specific model of the A6000 that you linked says it is 10.5" long. If you're shopping for a different manufacturer/model ...
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Difference, in graphic cards memory, between NIVIDA official page and laptop specifications
The RTX 3050 mobile has either 4 GB or 6 GB of VRAM depending on your variant. The desktop version has 8 GB of VRAM. The 4 GB variant of the RTX 3050 mobile is also substantially slower.
It's fair to ...
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Accelerated computing: GeForce RTX vs. Quardo RTX
Simple, Quadro RTX is based on Turing, and the RTX 4070 is based on the Ada architecture. Turing is way older (it was used in the RTX 2080 for example) so that's why the 4070 is faster. That doesn't ...
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GPU card (Nvidia)
I have actually heared that Nvidia disabled that mining prevention through drivers, but if that is wrong, the cards that don't have the LHR label don't have the BIOS or driver limitations and I think ...
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Geforce 4060 or 3060 (Ti) for Blender PC Build
So I have looked at some benchmarks from Tweakers, and from there I conclude that if you don't need the extra vram for your specific projects the 4060 is about 18% faster while using about 30% less ...
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