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AMD has a history of providing sub-par software, and their strategy of (partially) opening up their specifications and have other people write it for free didn't work either.

Nvidia has huge software teams, and so does Intel.

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I don't know if they'll ultimately succeed or not, but they at least seem to be putting genuine effort into this. ROCm releases are coming out at a relatively nice clip[1], including a new release just a week or two ago[2].

[1]: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/releases

[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-5.7-Released

Yeah, AMD is doing more with ROCm. But are they catching up to Nvidia, or just not falling behind as fast as before? Only time will tell

It's a fair question. And I agree, all we can do is wait and see how things play out. I am definitely rooting for AMD here though, for multiple reasons.

Not only sub-par software, but sub-par software that they drop support for after a couple of years. People can work around the problems with sub-par software if they believe that it will benefit them long term. They will absolutely not put in the effort if they fear it will be completely useless in 2 years time.

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