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enb141 GPU slot? As far as I know there's no way to make an nvidia or amd card to work with ARM. Reply
Findecanor Jeff Geerling on YouTube has already tested it. It has some weird performance/efficiency issues. He got a SFF nVidia card working under Ubuntu but not under the supplied OS. Reply
ezst036 enb141 said: GPU slot? As far as I know there's no way to make an nvidia or amd card to work with ARM. System76's Thelio Astra has Ampere ARM CPUs in them and Nvidia Blackwells. They aren't selling non-functional computers. https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure AMD GPUs do work with ARM, at least on RP5, for about a year. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/amd-radeon-pro-w7700-running-on-raspberry-pi https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-teams-up-with-radeon-gpu-to-run-doom-eternal-with-rtx-on-at-4k-the-combo-also-tackles-crysis-remastered-red-dead-redemption-2-and-forza-horizon-4 https://videocardz.com/newz/it-can-run-crysis-raspberry-pi-5-combined-with-radeon-rx-6700-xt-runs-crysis-remastered-at-4k-low-with-20-30fps Reply
JamesJones44 enb141 said: GPU slot? As far as I know there's no way to make an nvidia or amd card to work with ARM. Nvidia and AMD both have server side GPUs that work with ARM. It's not inconceivable that their consumer GPUs could be made to work with ARM. There is nothing in the Nvidia and AMD GPU instructions that are tied to x86/x64 as far as I'm aware. The Switch and Switch 2 both use Nvidia based GPUs with ARM based processors. There is even an open sourced reverse engineered instruction set for Nvidia called Nouveau that is ARM compatible. I've not dug into AMD's GPU instructions, but documents exist for them. Given AMD GPUs work with ARM on the server side I have no reason to think their consumer GPUs are tied to CPU platforms, but I can't say for sure. Reply
LordVile Admin said: Popular Mini PC manufacturer Minisforum has just stepped into the ARM market with the MS-R1. It's a 1.7-liter compact system with the CIX CD8180 SoC, consisting of 12-cores clocked at up 2.6 GHz, with a 28W TDP. There's a full-size dedicated GPU slot and support for UEFI built-in, allowing you to easily boot into mainstream operating systems. Minisforum launches its first ARM-based Mini PC with a full x16 PCIe slot for discrete GPUs — The MS-R1 packs a 12-core Cixin P1 SoC with up to 64… : Read more Yeah hit you can’t run windows on it because of Qualcomm Reply
Amdlova They ask too much for these system. I want a cheap arm devices. Got my nuc for 230$ and have two thunderbolt 4.0 ports. Reply
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