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Re:AMD Radeon VII: High-End 7nm Vega Video Card by dragontamer on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:43PM (#18868648)
> If they don't gimp FP64 it won't leave a whole lot of reason to buy the MI50 for probably 10x the price.

MI50 has ECC RAM support. That's absolutely necessary for high-end scientific compute.

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Re:AMD Radeon VII: High-End 7nm Vega Video Card by keldaris on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:28PM (#18869089)
Not at a 10x price difference it isn't, at least if you're at all price conscious and looking for workstations / small clusters. This makes it far cheaper to just re-run simulations as necessary to get the same statistical guarantees with regards to memory corruption errors.
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