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Stonker
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Re: Fritz 17

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I would like to know whether it's worth getting Fat Fritz with only a GTX 1660 GPU. I have Ryzen 1700 with 32GB RAM.
Does it just run a little slower or not at at all?
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Re: Fritz 17

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Stonker wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2019 11:36 pm I would like to know whether it's worth getting Fat Fritz with only a GTX 1660 GPU. I have Ryzen 1700 with 32GB RAM.
Does it just run a little slower or not at at all?
Yes - it will be fine.
Albert says that you can actually use fp16 according to a well-known tester. Not quite as fast as the RTX cards, but 1.7 times faster than plain CUDA.
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Re: Fritz 17

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Graham Banks wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2019 11:45 pm
Stonker wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2019 11:36 pm I would like to know whether it's worth getting Fat Fritz with only a GTX 1660 GPU. I have Ryzen 1700 with 32GB RAM.
Does it just run a little slower or not at at all?
Yes - it will be fine.
Albert says that you can actually use fp16 according to a well-known tester. Not quite as fast as the RTX cards, but 1.7 times faster than plain CUDA.
That particular optimization was introduced in version v0.21.2 (more than 4 months ago).
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Re: Fritz 17

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Thx for speedy response, Graham and Ozymandias. Sorry but I have no idea what fp16 is. Not asking for a lengthy explanation; just a quick pointer for if I buy this thing. Cheers....
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Re: Fritz 17

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Paloma wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2019 1:28 pm We buy FatFritz and everything else is not our problem.
Some people are claiming that only one person needs to buy Fat Fritz and then they can distribute its weights so anybody else can use it without buying it. I don't think I've ever seen a precedent for a case like this, it would be piracy to distribute anything on the disk that they sell, except for that weight file?
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Re: Fritz 17

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Stonker wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:48 am Thx for speedy response, Graham and Ozymandias. Sorry but I have no idea what fp16 is. Not asking for a lengthy explanation; just a quick pointer for if I buy this thing. Cheers....
But is the NN engine all you care about, not the Fritz17 AB engine? If that's the case, it's not worth buying.
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Re: Fritz 17

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jp wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:41 am
Stonker wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:48 am Thx for speedy response, Graham and Ozymandias. Sorry but I have no idea what fp16 is. Not asking for a lengthy explanation; just a quick pointer for if I buy this thing. Cheers....
But is the NN engine all you care about, not the Fritz17 AB engine? If that's the case, it's not worth buying.
Why not?
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Re: Fritz 17

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Graham Banks wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:22 am Why not?
Well, it depends whether all he cares about is the NN engine.
If that's the case, he should just go with Leela.
But if he's interested in Fritz17, etc., that's different.
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Re: Fritz 17

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jp wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:36 am
Graham Banks wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:22 am Why not?
Well, it depends whether all he cares about is the NN engine.
If that's the case, he should just go with Leela.
But if he's interested in Fritz17, etc., that's different.
I guess it will depend on Fat Fritz results.
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Re: Fritz 17

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Graham Banks wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:39 am I guess it will depend on Fat Fritz results.
When we've looked at analysis of positions on this BB, Fat Fritz has not been any better than a host of NN engines and in one position it's been inferior.