[nickysielicki]

This would mean a lot more if ROCM worked on these cards. These cards are capable of a lot but the software stack (OpenCL) leaves a lot to be desired.

I don’t know what AMD is doing, to be honest. You would think that they’d want to get this all working ASAP so that they can serve as an alternative to nvidia for ML and gpgpu.

I guess there’s so much demand for Nvidia between ML and cryptocurrency and gaming that AMD having feature parity with nvidia in only one subcategory (gaming) is enough to still sell all their production capacity.

[varispeed]

I'd like to see them trying to beat M1 rather than chase the GPU game. Apart from gaming these GPUs have little use in day to day computing. Maybe you encode a video once in a while, but it does not make huge difference whether it will encode in 10 or 5 minutes.

[xiphias2]

If you look at the success of TikTok and YouTube, video editing was never as great market for electronics suppliers as now. I don't care about it either, but that's just because I'm not an influencer.

[rrss]

lol, this is such a vacuous comment.

"device made specifically for gaming is not useful for people uninterested in gaming"

[varispeed]

It's a smaller market than a CPU and likely requires same or more effort. As a person not interested in gaming I would prefer the resources to be used to develop better computing experience. I understand the pool of people who can do such things is not unlimited. Current CPU market is in dire straits as Intel was bumbling the last few years and only now AMD is catching up, but it seems like Apple is already miles ahead. That wouldn't be too bad, but it means the market may be won by a company that is anti-consumer, anti-competitive and two faced.