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wondering when AMD will realize it can charge 2x as much for the same thing, by simply finally writing a fucking driver

The story of “great hardware ruined by poor drivers/software” is so old than its truly shocking its still a thing these days

On Linux the problem is often flipped (historically for Nvidia/AMD).

The AMD drivers are mainline kernel, while Nvidia is still handing out binary blobs.

AMD also deprecates cards and throw in wrenches for cards that are hot in used markets. Latest ROCm kind of works on MI50 but requisite files are taken out of just standard Ubuntu installation. They truly don't understand marketing.

That is a ~9 year old card. I'm not sure any of the newer work AMD has been doing can utilize that hardware at all.

It would have been sold off to grey market or destroyed 3-4yr ago in most companies.

Newer, much cheaper stuff ironically would run better. That card isn't even really designed for AI workloads at all.

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