Comments on: ASRock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T Review This is the Ampere Arm Motherboard You Want

By: Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:30:59 +0000

@Rob – Since Ampere’s fairly established in datacenter applications now (not to mention a number of other Arm64 systems that have PCIe connectivity), a ton of modern cards are supported now (GPUs, storage controllers, WiFi, 5G, etc.).

There’s still a lot of work to go of course, and a lot of legacy cards (5+ years old) won’t work, but a lot of the cards are supported in the Linux kernel, and many manufacturers are targeting arm64 and amd64 (and sometimes even riscv) with their drivers now.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 09:36:01 +0000

I wonder what it’s like trying to get proprietary Drivers for PCIe cards, compiled for ARM.

Probably non-existent.

By: emerth

emerth — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 07:36:32 +0000

Very nice.

By: spuwho

spuwho — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:52:08 +0000

Where is AmpereOne?

Supermicro says “coming soon”.

But I think its due to the constraint in fab capacity right now. AmpereOne uses a chiplet design from TSMC. And Apple has really screwed the pooch by ordering up so much contractual capacity at the same node, it caused AMD to un-announce the Epyc “Dense”. So I am guessing that Ampere is standing in line waiting for TSMC just like AMD is.

By: AldiK

AldiK — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:43:48 +0000

Ampere Altra and Altra Max sold in the market because they’re low power and cheap. A 64 core Altra is like a 16 core Ryzen performance, but if you need cores for VMs then it’s 64 not 16.

AmpereOne failed in the market which is why they’re still selling Altra. I haven’t seen an AmpereOne STH review, no Phoronix review. There’s only 2 sites that matter for servers, and neither have reviewed AmpereOne, so it must be a trashcan.

BUT THERE’S the importance of this mobo. It’s the first one that’s like a real DIY board. So you don’t have to use a SBC that isn’t standards compliant. You don’t have to buy a prebuilt server with a large premium. This article did a good job hitting that point and mentioning second hand DDR4 and that.

It’s a big time board but it’s really for Arm developers. We need it because there’s still OSes like Proxmox VE that don’t support Arm.

By: Laugh|nGMan

Laugh|nGMan — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:05:39 +0000

to me, kind a outdated components. whats the deal with this board?
why its better than , lets say , x13sem-tf + EMR cpu. power consumption…