George Hotz in June 2023:

> I have had direct contact with members of the AMD RTG team and I was disgusted to find that AMD doesn't even provide them with hardware to work on. The developer I was working with had to buy the GPU he was writing drivers for.

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da-x 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think this has changed since then, their policies toward open source improved (e.g ROCm).

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dist-epoch 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The market says the problem is still there.

An NVIDIA consumer GPU sells for 50+% or more than an equivalent AMD GPU. Because people are buying NVIDIA GPUs to run local models instead of AMD ones.

I did the same thing, I paid 50% more to get an 5070 Ti instead of the equivalent AMD.

This is probably good for gamers, AMD GPUs are not price inflating to the same degree as NVIDIA, because they are bad at LLMs.

> That was the reason for comparing them in the first place: based on performance, they are direct competitors, or at least they are meant to be. However, as things stand today, there is a massive price divide between the two, with the RTX Ti GPU now commanding a premium of more than 50%.

https://www.techspot.com/review/3168-geforce-rtx-5070-vs-rad...

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sznio 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

wondering when AMD will realize it can charge 2x as much for the same thing, by simply finally writing a fucking driver

	▲	numpad0 31 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		AMD also deprecates cards and throw in wrenches for cards that are hot in used markets. Latest ROCm kind of works on MI50 but requisite files are taken out of just standard Ubuntu installation. They truly don't understand marketing.
	▲	prymitive 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The story of “great hardware ruined by poor drivers/software” is so old than its truly shocking its still a thing these days

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esseph 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> AMD GPUs are not price inflating to the same degree as NVIDIA, because they are bad at LLMs.

9060 XT 16GB seems to have some great performance with gpt oss 20B and others, and works great with their lemonade-server.

https://lemonade-server.ai/

What exactly do you think is running on a Strix Halo?