[jauntywundrkind]

Who knows what it means but I don't feel super hopeful that RDNA (Ryzen/consumer) & CDNA (Compute/data-center) are being merged to UDNA after RDNA4. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announce...

The consumer gpu's were unobtainium during COVID. You can't make money if you don't even have cards to sell. Then rx7000 series offered a pretty minimal upgrade.

I'm very hopeful I might finally upgrade my rx580. An affordable chip that did pretty great. RDNA4 sounds similar, after their expensive multi-chip flagship got cancelled a long while back.

It just feels absurd that AMD is slacking so hard here. Nvidia got where they are by selling consumer cards that ran CUDA well. AMD seems to think their high margin data-center GPUs don't need any consumer market to succeed and maybe they are right but it's such a gamble to have ROCm with so few consumer offerings available for it, so have such a decaying consumer side.