[paulmd]

> OpenCL is totally functional, on AMD and even iGPU Intel.

The fact that it’s not functional on non-NVIDIA platforms is the whole reason Blender dropped OpenCL support. If you’re going to write a bunch of implementation-specific code to handle AMD’s bugs/non-compliant runtime, why not just target CUDA directly?

“it’s open-source, if you want it fixed then pay someone to do it or just spend a month making a patch instead of doing your work???”

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like, same with ROCm, is AMD just wants to externalize all their costs onto customers yet still wants them to adopt it instead of the turnkey solution that everyone else already uses. Why would anyone do that? It’s great for NVIDIA but terrible for users.

(and as for the “AMD drivers have been good for like ten years now!!!” crowd… counterpoint: the entire 5700XT thing, drivers broken for the first 18 months, just like Vega before it. And oh look 7900XTX is turning into a trainwreck too. There’s just constant showstopping bugs with AMD drivers. Just like with ROCm too… patchwork support and endless bugs that don’t exist in the industry-standard solution. Nobody wants to spend their time doing AMD’s job for them.)

To their credit this is one thing Intel got right… they probably spent more dev time on oneAPI in the last year than AMD spent on ROCm and all their previous attempts/projects/resume-driven-development fodder combined.