AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance

Post by thrtythreeforty » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 5:32 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #66

thrtythreeforty wrote: post #55

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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 Z…

There's a difference between officially supported, and supported. My 6900XT, an unsupported card, works just fine.

Post by FredPret » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

logicchains wrote: post #44

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Whats insane is that AMD has been known for it's shit drivers for over a decade now...and nothing has happened to address this. Like surely everyone internally knows it, all the execs know it, the board knows it, investors know it...but somehow it has never been addressed. At this point it's almost like it has to be intentional, like some perceived tradeoff ingrained in the culture that generates shit software.

>At this point it's almost like it has to be intentional, like some perceived tradeoff ingrained in the culture that generates shit software. They're underpaying their hardware engineers, and if they wanted to hire good software engineers they'd need to pay more, which would cause their hardware engineers to demand better pay too.

Post by zamalek » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 6:22 PM UTC

thrtythreeforty wrote: post #72

zamalek wrote: post #66

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There's a difference between officially supported, and supported. My 6900XT, an unsupported card, works just fine.

Then they should indicate that! Putting me off from considering an AMD card for purchase is very detrimental to building a userbase.

Post by echelon » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 6:37 PM UTC

Symmetry wrote: post #64

thrtythreeforty wrote: post #55

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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 Z…

That's from 2022. AMDs move to start generally supporting consumer cards is very recent.

Post by skyyler » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 6:42 PM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #65

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>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 You just managed to summarise why having conversations with strangers is so difficult on the internet these days. Instead of considering that you were incorrect, even for a moment, you sought an article that you thought would confirm the ideas that you already had. Without even actually r…

You do understand that's not really what happened here right? The concept IS called possessive apostrophe and literally until this minute I wasn't aware that "it's" isn't grammatically correct when the "it" in the sentence is being used possessively. I didn't just find an article I thought agreed with me and fire it off, I thought "it's" was valid and riffic didn't know about possessive apostrophes (which again, I ha…