ATI/AMD GPUs supposedly have great hardware, hamstrung by less-than-great software. In fact it's the lack of some software features making me hesitate to switch despite major cost savings.
AMD drivers are fine if you only care about gaming. There's the occasional idiocy like the default fan curve for my graphics card refusing to run higher than 70% so that the card will cook itself if you actually use it and hard crash your system or the driver, but eh.
The real problem is that ROCm is a fucking joke, pathetic, half assed, pretend project. Nobody with power in AMD seems to care that nobody can learn machine learning on their hardware to push it in other places, or that their GPUs that they have recently spent all this time boasting about their higher VRAM which is literally useless unless you want to play poorly optimized AAA titles ported from the PS5.
People say it works but you basically have to be one of the engineers who wrote it to prove that. Good luck getting it to work with Windows, or any hardware that wasn't purpose built for a cluster partner. It's so stupid. Maybe they genuinely intended to make a real CUDA competitor but noticed the ways that nVidia then had to artificially segment their market through dumb decisions (the VRAM) and bios hacks that didn't work and just gave up on that path.
The real problem is that ROCm is a fucking joke, pathetic, half assed, pretend project. Nobody with power in AMD seems to care that nobody can learn machine learning on their hardware to push it in other places, or that their GPUs that they have recently spent all this time boasting about their higher VRAM which is literally useless unless you want to play poorly optimized AAA titles ported from the PS5.
People say it works but you basically have to be one of the engineers who wrote it to prove that. Good luck getting it to work with Windows, or any hardware that wasn't purpose built for a cluster partner. It's so stupid. Maybe they genuinely intended to make a real CUDA competitor but noticed the ways that nVidia then had to artificially segment their market through dumb decisions (the VRAM) and bios hacks that didn't work and just gave up on that path.