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AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
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Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#52AMD gatekeeps this functionality behind it's non-consumer cards. They don't realize that having a consumer card and being able to develop on it is a gateway to using AMD. I can use CUDA on any Nvidia card I buy. I can't believe they are so incredibly dense on this.
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Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#53AMD gatekeeps this functionality behind it's non-consumer cards. They don't realize that having a consumer card and being able to develop on it is a gateway to using AMD. I can use CUDA on any Nvidia card I buy. I can't believe they are so incredibly dense on this.
*its
It's a possessive apostrophe: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/possessive-apostrophe/
Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
*its
It's a possessive apostrophe: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/possessive-apostrophe/
Did you read that article you linked?
>The important thing to remember is don’t use possessive apostrophes with any pronouns, either possessive pronouns or possessive adjectives.
>If you see an apostrophe with a pronoun, it must be part of a contraction.
>its—possessive adjective of it
>it’s—contraction for “it is”
"its" would be correct in the root comment.
Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#55AMD gatekeeps this functionality behind it's non-consumer cards. They don't realize that having a consumer card and being able to develop on it is a gateway to using AMD. I can use CUDA on any Nvidia card I buy. I can't believe they are so incredibly dense on this.
You can run inference and training on consumer AMD cards today. It works fine, including llama.cpp, stable diffusion, hugging face transformers, etc. Way cheaper for a given performance/VRAM target as well.
Maybe so. But it isn't confidence inspiring when I go to see which cards are supported and I see this issue:
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1714
With Nvidia cards, I know that if I buy any Nvidia card made in the last 10 years, CUDA code will run on it. Period. (Yes, different language levels require newer hardware, but Nvidia docs are quite clear about which CUDA versions require which silicon.) I have an AMD Zen3 APU with a tiny Vega in it; I ought to be able to mess around with HIP with ~zero fuss.
The will-they-won't-they and the rapidly dropped support is hurting the otherwise excellent ROCm and HIP projects. There is a huge API surface to implement and it looks like they're making rapid gains.
Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#56Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a possessive apostrophe: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/possessive-apostrophe/
Did you read that article you linked? >The important thing to remember is don’t use possessive apostrophes with any pronouns, either possessive pronouns or possessive adjectives. >If you see an apostrophe with a pronoun, it must be part of a contraction. >its—possessive adjective of it >it’s—contraction for “it is” "its" would be correct in the root comment.
No I didn't read it fully, I knew what the concept was called, found an article, skimmed it until I was sure it was talking about the thing I thought it was. I'm almost positive I was taught in school that "it's" is a valid possessive apostrophe case and honestly I think it's stupid that it's not. I find "its" more confusing personally.
Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
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>From what I've heard they aren't offering competitive salaries Seems like a common thing in hardware companies, they chronically underpay, which for some reason hardware/electrical engineers seem to accept, but that makes them a last-choice for competent software engineers, who have much better-paying options.
> which for some reason Didn't you just explicitly say the reason? A SWE can go off and make Google in their Gargage; a EE can't make a fab in their garage.
AMD doesn't even own a fab.
Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you read that article you linked? >The important thing to remember is don’t use possessive apostrophes with any pronouns, either possessive pronouns or possessive adjectives. >If you see an apostrophe with a pronoun, it must be part of a contraction. >its—possessive adjective of it >it’s—contraction for “it is” "its" would be correct in the root comment.
No I didn't read it fully, I knew what the concept was called, found an article, skimmed it until I was sure it was talking about the thing I thought it was. I'm almost positive I was taught in school that "it's" is a valid possessive apostrophe case and honestly I think it's stupid that it's not. I find "its" more confusing personally.
just sound it out in your head. If you see an apostrophe with it's, it usually means "it is"
Otherwise someone oopsed and you can leave a dumb grammar comment on HN
Re: AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
1mil comp? Haha, what? Salaries at semico companies are not even close to this Also why would you even need ppl this good? People who earn 1 mil offer way, way more than just tech skills
NVidia is a semico and they pay much better than AMD: https://www.indeed.com/companies/compare/Amd-vs-Nvidia-b78a5... . That's a big part of why they're so far ahead now and their drivers are much better. If AMD wants to catch up to NVidia within a reasonable timeframe, they wouldn't just need to match it, they'd need to pay way better than NVidia to attract the best people.
Agreed - Nvidia has made software a core pillar since the nineties.