Well, here goes nothing, sometimes to move forward you have to leave some things behind.

From now on I will no longer be making chip annotations and will only be contributing to media in limited capacity. Minecraft testing TBD, but for now on hold too.

Thank you all! 😉

Some more unscientific ArrowLake tests:

TrueNAS 25.04.1 QuickSync in Jellyfin works out of the box. NPU is missing firmware (hopefully soon?).

Added 3 old (power hungry) SSDs for a test pool.
Idle: 38W at wall
Transcoding (HEVC to AV1): 65-70W
Serving the transcoded video: 40W

Finally received the motherboard for the 265K yesterday.

After all the fixes since launch this is even better than I expected/remembered from last year.

20W from the wall without PCIe cards at idle-ish (vs like 50W+ for AM5). More MT than 9700X at about half the wall power (50W PL1/2), neat.

Turns out the SSD lockups/slowness after heavy writes and TRIM freezing randomly were actually caused by ReFS, my old SSD is fine, oops.

Disabling ReFS dedup/compression didn't really change anything, so after 4 years it is back to NTFS.

I guess if you're on Intel Arc... use 28 chunk render distance? ❓❔❓❔

(repeatable, I reran 24/28/32 chunks 4 times each because it didn't make sense, and it still doesn't make sense)

Back when I tested the RX 6600 vs GTX 1660 in Minecraft 2y ago, AMD was firmly ahead, but seems like something in MC changed a bit and AMD possibly reintroduced some CPU overhead in the driver.

NVIDIA is now ahead again at "normal" and especially "high" render distance.

Minecraft Patrix 256x resourcepack + OptiFine runs on the RX 9070 XT. AMD upped the hardware limitation of 16K texture size.

This combo just crashes on startup on any previous AMD GPU. (It still needs 25GB+ of VRAM so the 9070 XT cant really "run" it but hey, progress!)

Some quick non-scientific RX 9070 XT video encoder tests.

Two pictures from the receiving end of a discord screenshare from the 9070 XT. 1440p60 at about 9-10mbit since I have nitro, both during movement.

Looks perfectly usable for a stream, full res in gdrive link in reply 🧵

AMD StrixHalo annotation!

I quite like the memory/MALL layout, but it was really annoying to annotate. Also dual media engines!

Photos provided to me by x.com/Kurnalsalts
Full res available at nemez.net/die

VFIO on the Asrock Z790 Livemixer:

✅All slots separate IOMMU groups properly
✅PCIe card SR-IOV works
✅iGPU SR-IOV works (with out of tree i915)
⁉️Not possible to set the iGPU as the primary output if there is a dGPU

As expect of a modern Intel chipset, nice VFIO workstation.

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