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by nightski 9 days ago
It's simple, the 395+ Max Strix Halo you bought for $1800 is now a ~$4000 build (at least the AMD AI dev unit). If only we had time travel right? Either way, the Nvidia unit comes with Connect-X 7. That may or may not matter to you, but the hardware for that isn't cheap. In general the Nvidia cards also have better support for models. I know AMD is trying to catch up but anything except their datacenter cards do not seem to be getting a lot of attention.
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AMD is barely trying. The 395+ Max Strix Halo was launched January 2025.

gfx1151 was not listed in the ROCm compatibility matrix for ROCm 7.2.4 [0]. This is the previous version of ROCm.

It's only finally received support in ROCm 7.14.0 [1]! It literally just started receiving support last week.

[0] https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.2.4/compatibility/compat...

[1] https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.14.0/compatibility/compa...

Vulkan has worked for a long time on gfx1150/1151 and works well.
Is it to me or the iGPU of Ryzen 9950X is not supported by ROCm?
The igpu is a tiny RDNA2 GPU. Pretty certain the 9950x cpu will outperform it in compute tasks.
What if the software was written for ROCm?