Right now I’m running 2x 3090 and 128 gb ram on 3.8 flash-next180b (the quant is 97gb) and it hums at120t/s. It’s really a surprisingly good model for general tasks, and I’m soon to see how it does with more agentic kit. For agentic work it does slow down quite a bit when the context fills up… but what do you want for running a 180b model on consumer hardware?
Right now I have it set up as an administrator for our asterisk PBX and radius server, and it does higher level judgment on our cctv footage for notifications to security. It’s been really good so far. Agents are the new UI, everything just works over SSH now.
Marketing department asleep at the wheel.
No. Certainly not now, maybe not ever. That is the least consumer-focused product page I've seen today.
Kind of disappointed that Intel is (probably) not going to release consumer class GPUs. Intel's driver stack was seriously getting mature—both on Linux and Windows. It's always nice to have a third option available.
Theres so much money to be made
I do hope this has a price point that makes it somewhat competitive with a Mac! Consumers have had nearly no choices available for mem capacity, and 20 channels of lpddr5 is one way to get that capacity! Go Intel!
This is almost twice better than RTX 5090. This GPU will not be prefill constrained, I feel.
But I am surprised that they were able to pack so much flops into 300W.
Next the tokens will be asking for tequila and caviar. Bow down to the new token overloads.
I'm not. When you're doing inference you typically reduce power limits anyway if you're optimizing for efficiency. Even if you don't, it doesn't spike to the max of the card.
My 3090 I power it down to 175W or so for single-digit reductions in performance for like, 60% of the wattage, something like that.
Druid is still dead, consumer DGPUs are still, and workstation DGPUs also seems to be dead, and most of the Xe driver team for Windows was laid off, as well as most of the Xe chip design team.
You can work with 10 players that will buy all of them with minimal effort.