Agreed.

Makes sense. The energy usage probably wouldn’t be noticeable over the course of a year for normal usage, but that’s still a decent trade. A more efficient card that’s also faster. Pretty good.

Heh, caught me off guard with that description.

That video sounds about right. The place that more VRAM would be useful in is with compute, such as machine learning and video and photo editing, CAD, etc. I was doing image upscaling for the frames of a video a while ago, and it’s easy to fill up all 8GB of VRAM by upscaling enough images at once.

But the 580 is old by now, so it wouldn’t make sense to get a 16GB one for that either.

That 16GB 580 sounds cool for memory-constrained scenarios, but it’d obviously make more sense to get a more powerful card entirely.

Lenovo has a bunch already, but more is welcome in this case.

I haven’t seen anyone defend AMD with this, so I think we’re doing okay for now.

I re-read the article and the original ComputerBase article, and I think I have a better understanding of it now. You can read my update and let me know if I’m still misunderstanding it.

As the commenter under that article stated, it’s odd that AMD designed SEV in a way that the initial value is enough to pass the authentication.