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>As someone doing relatively small scale work, on gaming cards, you just aren't the target user.

He didn't use gaming cards. He bought the expensive $1.5k "workstation" graphics cards. What exactly is one going to use these GPUs for, other than GPGPU? Play video games? Really?

>While these kinds of users are well represented on forums, they're a rounding error in terms of actual $.

There are only three thousand developers who have ever committed to pytorch. Compared to a datacenter contract, that is a rounding error in terms of sales. Hence AMD shouldn't waste time on letting people independently work on AMD support for pytorch. They should only work on pytorch, whenever there is a big contract.

However, switching to SYCL makes no sense because Mesa is getting SYCL support. The likelihood that the mesa drivers cause a kernel panic is much lower.