Chinese deprecate Nvidia support for aging US LLMs.
Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures
The end of the road is nearing for a range of aging Nvidia graphics cards, as support for several architectures was marked as feature-complete in the latest release of its CUDA runtime this month. "Architecture support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta is considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming release," the …
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Monday 27th January 2025 22:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Trust no one. Suspect everyone. The enemy is within ... You have been warned !!!
In a somewhat related vein:
It 'falls' to my attention that 'Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn' is a more familar set of seasons, for the rest of the world !!!
I realise that 'el Reg' has gone 'merican' but a little nod to the rest of the world would be welcome.
[Although in these Trumpf 2.0 times, I realise that the rest of the world is of less & less concern to the US of A.]
:)
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Monday 27th January 2025 21:01 GMT williamyf
Well, better begin saving for a massive upgrade
A few months ago, I got a Hand Me Down GTX1070 8GB used in mining (I know the miner). Coincidentaly, today I received new fans for it. Thanks to Intel XeSS (and, to a lesser exent, AMD's FSR), games are playable AND look great on my 1440p monitor (both XeSS and FSR do a MUCH better work upscaling than the built-in upscaler of the monitor anyway). And, if needed be, FSR 3.1 FrameGen + XeSS 1,3 Upscaling will be a Killer combo to go beyond 75FPS (that's what I got in 1994, plaing OG Doom on a Starion 700i P90 with a NEC XV17 monitor, 60Hz flickered in sync with fluorecents, giving me migraines)
But, it will be sad to see active Driver support go. For instance, some update fixed FSR/XeSS use in Shadow of the Tomb Raider (had to use NIS before). Anywho, in 9 days time, I have an appointment with some "Alex Murphy" guy.
I plan on keeping using it until I replace my 6 core MacMini 2018**, and even beyond that date, with whatever laptop I buy.
Having said that, when replacement time comes, I'll probably get an intel Celestial/Cleric, or a Druid card, with a balanced system around it as my desktop (yes, that's how long I think I can strech this desktop and 1070 without sacrificyng security).
Worse still, My DS1515+ goes out of support soon to. I may extend it's life for a while, but it will be a COSTLY upgrade cycle... (though a VM with spenology or some FOSS NAS system on the same desktop may do the trick)
**Bootcamping for games
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Sunday 2nd February 2025 18:57 GMT Henry Wertz 1
Driver support
Having dealt with reviving one or two machines with out if date nvidia hardware...
You indeed install older drivers. Ubuntu for instance has 470 'legacy' drivers still for stuff that 490 and 5xx drivers no longer support. No longer works with your current kernel? Ubuntu at least has little trouble installing an older kernel, even from a previous Ubuntu release, and running newer userland on top of it.
As for CUDA, Nvidia goes to *some* extremes to let one 'mix and match'. If you're not using unsupported feaatures they actually have compatibility shims to let 'most' Cuda 12 stuff run in Cuda 11 even. My understanding is this is INTENDED for use with those 'enterprise distros' where they are heinously slow to update the kernel series and drivers ('if it aint broke don't fix it') and business/gov't where they have red tape in doing any major software updates. But AFAIK it'd work for this too.