[muxr]

AMD's driver is much better on Linux than Nvidia's. And ROCm HIP stuff isn't obscure. It's what's needed to bridge Nvidia's proprietary vendor lock ins.

Nvidia is literally cancer in this space.

[nicolaslem]

AMD display driver on Linux is much better than nvidia's but the GPGPU situation is just ridiculous outside of the Pro cards.

[irusensei]

> AMD's driver is much better on Linux than Nvidia's.

1. Agree AMDGPU is awesome. 2. All tests were done in Linux with the exception of coreml on MacOS.

> And ROCm HIP stuff isn't obscure.

It is from my novice perspective. While Nvidia stuff works out of the box (even on Linux) I had to install Rocm and a special version of PyTorch for rocm. Then it only kinda worked after an assortment of environment variables to set GFX version. And even then it uses as twice as much video memory as what torch uses on Nvidia, limiting what I can do.

[okamiueru]

When you say "out of the box", then it's distros like pop!_os? Or has it become more common to automatically install proprietary drivers? Asking out of curiosity.

[irusensei]

Not referring to drivers but runtime libraries.

[rpep]

The ROCm libraries and their documentation are nowhere near as good though.

For e.g. compare rocFFT to cuFFT. They're worlds apart still.