ROCm is open source and TheRock is community maintained, and in a minute the first Linux distro will have native in-tree builds. It will be supported for the foreseeable future due to AMDs open development approach.

It is Nvidia that has the track record of closed drivers and insisting on doing all software dev without community improvements to expected results.

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KennyBlanken 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> expected results

The defacto GPU compute platform? With the best featureset?

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lrvick 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And the worst privacy, transparency, and FOSS integration due to their insistence on a heavily proprietary stack.

Also pretty hard to beat a Strix Halo right now in TPS for the money and power consumption.

Even that aside there exist plenty like me that demand high freedom and transparency and will pay double for it if we have to.

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KennyBlanken 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> And the worst privacy, transparency, and FOSS integration due to their insistence on a heavily proprietary stack.

The market doesn't care about any of that. The consumer market doesn't care, and the commercial market definitely does not. The consumer market wants the most Fortnite frames per second per dollar. The commercial market cares about how much compute they can do per watt, per slot.

> there exist plenty like me that demand high freedom and transparency and will pay double for it if we have to.

The four percent share of the datacenter market and five percent of the desktop GPU market say (very strongly) otherwise.

I have a 100% AMD system in front of me so I'm hardly an NVIDIA fanboy, but you thinking you represent the market is pretty nuts.

	▲	lrvick 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I did not claim to represent the market as a whole, but I feel I likely represent a significant enough segment of it that AMD is going to be just fine. I think local power efficient LLMs are going to make those datacenter numbers less relevant in the long run.