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The problem is that AMD GPUs basically don't work. Intel also has issues. ML is big, and that's NVidia's game.

Many years ago, Matrox had a nice niche. Their cards were stable, reliable, and open-source. They weren't the fastest, but they were widely used for CAD, workstation, and business work. I'd like something like that today. I'm surprised Intel can't pull it off.

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Define "Basically don't work"? They've been competing at the top end with Nvidia for at least the last couple generations. It was a toss up between things like the 3080 and 6800XT for the same price. They've been on a hell of a roll for awhile now.

Yeah, what? I've been pretty happy with my 6900xt. ML workloads are not as good without Nvidia branded stuff, but games run great and with lower power draw/heat than competition.

Ryzen 5900x / RX 6900xt here

Life's pretty good in Linux land too. Around the launch of the 6000 series AMD pushed a bunch of good stuff in the kernel. With Vulkan being the big boy in town I can practically play any game I want sans shooters, and that's because of anticheat.

How is ROCm playing out? I am eying new GPU, especially for stable diffusion, very curious about this. As i see, AMd is loaded with vram but lacks cuda-thingies, is it right?

Modern AMD GPUs are fantastic, and I would recommend them over NVIDIA cards for most people. I'm not really sure where you're getting this from.

Have you bought an amd gpu in the last decade? They don’t beat nvidias top cards but they perform well. Xbox/PS4 use amd hardware and so does the steam deck. I have no idea why this comment was even made?? Have you compared their open source driver to nvidias? Night and day difference.

Dude what? Ok sure older and cards were hot garbage but not nowadays

Intel did pull it off.

Which company did you think shipped billions of chips with integrated graphics in the 2010-2017 era, before Ryzen? Their iGPUs weren't amazing, but they were good enough to be used in business/office PCs across the world.

The only reason I switched to team Green was the noise reduction for microphone. My 5700XT worked just fine.

You know that you not need. NVIDIA card to using a AI noise filter ? RRNoise does the same thing and not need a Nvidia GPU to work.

A happy user of RRNoise on Linux with an AMD GPU

Ah, no I didn't.

Well, to be honest the 3070 is twice the performance of the 5700X so I'm not going to get upset. But that's good to know for the future.

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