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Have you done much AI work against AMD products? I'm not going to plunk down $2500+ for an RTX 4090, but have been considering an RX 7900XTX for playing around with, or at least getting started. Just curious how well it will or won't work in practice, or if saving a bit more and getting a 7900 XT over the XTX might be a better option, and how much less vram might impact usefulness in practice.

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My only work with consumer AMD GPUs was mining ethereum, I had 150,000 of them.

If you want to use enterprise AMD gpus, I'm renting them. That said, I haven't even had a chance to run/play with them myself yet, they have been rented since I got them last month.

Yes, we are getting more.

Caveat emptor and your mileage may vary; but unlike nVidia where you could just assume that everything is compatible with everything, for AMD I'd strongly recommend that you try before you buy - consider renting a cloud machine with that GPU to check if the software works for your needs before committing to a large purchase.

Agreed! The problem is that you cannot rent a MI300x or other high end AMD. They all go into HPC. A problem that I love to work on.

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