Looking at the Product Conformance pages, it looks like you need a GCN 1.0 device for Vulkan 1.0 support (current is 1.4).

Thames was a Terrascale 2 architecture (i.e. the one before GCN1.0) and as such can’t support Vulkan or DX12.

Easier to dump the hot water and get new cold water.

Nvidias latest gen looks to be 30% faster after 2 years of development with about the same power usage increase. So no reduction in Joules per GOP, just a speed increase.

In 6 years they might go 2x the speed of today but need double the watts (to deliver the same energy in half the time).

A company can have value without making profit. It can own assets. It has value in its staff.

Now should it have a valuation like OpenAI? Fuck no!

The rationale for doing this must only be for fun. You’re talking about a project that will take man years, and the price of a new vulkan capable graphics card is $300-400.

I have no idea what this company is…who this person is…and by the looks of it, I’ll never need to.

Europe has certainly had its violent ages. Since WW2 its built good relationships between the countries. I do not forsee any conflict except for Russia.

No.

Russia (the current primary aggressor) is on the brink of a banking system collapse. It doesn’t have the money to wage war on a bigger scale than it already is.

China is far more interested in trade than hostilities.

The middle east has been a tinder box for over a hundred years. I don’t see it dragging outsiders into it and hopefully we have a respite coming.

Central Asia has tension between India and Pakistan, but that’s nothing new. India could piss off China or the reverse, and if that kicked off the loss of life could be on a scale that would be unprecedented but still I think it wouldn’t drag the west in.