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AMD's AI chips could match Nvidia's offerings, software firm says

by dbcooper on 7/1/23, 12:29 PM with 10 comments

• by voytec on 7/1/23, 4:55 PM

  Somewhat related: Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown[1]

  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36164055 (236p, 214c, 29d ago)

• by machinekob on 7/1/23, 3:54 PM

  ROCm is one of the worst GPU software (+drivers) I ever touched, randomly dropping/ not supporting GPUs, random crashes without any proper information etc not integrated with any meaningful framework (It was ~3 years ago).

  I have more hope in Apple/Intel joing "AI" chips market over AMD even if they make good enough hardware you cant use it without a lot of software problems (srsly just get your act together AMD, as community support is slowly dying after last AMD dramas and).

• by Detrytus on 7/1/23, 7:25 PM

  Well, past few years of Intel troubles, resulting in the success of Zen architecture made people forget that AMD is a company with mediocricity written all over their DNA. Nvidia will run circles around AMD for the decades to come. And the hardware is only smart part of it, the big thing is software.

• by DarthNebo on 7/1/23, 2:50 PM

  Devs who do not have these in their workstations will not be experimenting on rented VMs, unless it is company infra. Dunno why Radeon cards aren't the focus instead of these MI variant

• by TillE on 7/1/23, 3:47 PM

  I'm not sure about compute, but in graphics NVIDIA is still winning by a lot in terms of performance per watt. That's a huge challenge for AMD even if the card itself is priced competitively, especially as you scale beyond single-card consumer systems.