[TriLUG] video processing and ML on Linux

[Greg Brown via TriLUG]

Thank you for the information!  I will admit to lusting over the Ryzen
chips.  What are they up to now?  64 cores?  That's insane.  Insane and I
want some of that action (though I could get by with just 24 or 32 cores...)

Greg

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:39 AM John Franklin via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2020, at 14:28, John Franklin via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 15, 2020, at 00:30, Greg Brown via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If anyone has thoughts on specifications I'm all ears.  Budget is not
> >> unlimited by any stretch but as of right now I could safely drop
> $2500.00
> >> or so on the machine itself and more if I had to (but that might take
> some
> >> massaging).  I'd like to stick under $2500 if possible.  Cutting edge is
> >> not required, as much as I'd like to have two threadrippers.
> >
> >
> > Another serious option for consideration is waiting for the Ryzen 5000
> series chips to be in-stock again, and building a dream machine with a
> Quadro or a Radeon Pro WX.
>
>
> The more I look at reviews, benchmarks, and price out a new build for
> myself, the more I have to say wait for the Ryzen to be in-stock.  Dang.
>
> For video production, definitely go with ECC memory.  Ryzen supports it
> [1], if the motherboard supports it.  Because you know it’ll be when you’re
> doing the final export close to the deadline that a 1-bit error will happen
> and there will be a corruption artifact for a dozen frames in the file.
>
> [1]
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/ggmyyg/an_overview_of_ecc_memory_on_ryzen/
>
> jf
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