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If it worked on linux I would consider working with the device. Windows is a non-starter.

dragontamer 9y ago
Its really odd that AMD is pushing so strongly with Open Source Linux Drivers / Open Source Vulkan Drivers / ROCm and then they come out with a $7000-card that doesn't work on Linux. With that said, their "standard Vega" chips: the WX 9100, Vega Frontier, and the MI25 seem to work with Linux. Its just that this "SSG" is a $7000 anomaly. Most likely, some big corporate customer wanted this card for maybe Adobe products (Photoshop? Premier?) or maybe 3d effects like Maya. Considering that AMD's "test product" was an older SSG "Developer Edition" a few years ago, clearly some big customer wanted this card, and clearly wanted it on Windows.
- bitL 9y ago
  I guess it's a bleeding edge stuff if you want to avoid GPU being bottlenecked by PCIe transfer during computations, and their SW expertise is likely better on Windows. Even with the crazy SW hiring AMD does right now, it might take some time until Linux catches up.
  - dragontamer 9y ago
    From my perspective, this is all opposite land. ROCm / HIP / HCC / AMD's next OpenCL implementation are all Linux-only right now, with no Windows support for the HCC compiler (even though its based on Microsoft C++ AMP).
- cameldrv 9y ago
  Software over there seems like it must be a total mess. There is a pretty good sized market for people training DL models that Nvidia currently owns completely that they have not yet entered simply because they haven't made Tensorflow and Pytorch work with ROCm. Even the ROCm web pages are amateurish and appear to have virtually no work behind them. Seriously, it's three very good developers and a few months of work that's holding them back from maybe a hundred million in sales, and at least 20 billion in their stock valuation from being perceived as being in the DL game.
- posterboy 9y ago
  maybe it just doesn't work well enough, yet. would be a pr decision to leave it out if i consider the price.
AMDGfxManager 9y ago
Support for linux was added recently. You can the info here http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-Pro-Driver-17.40-for-Linux.aspx http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-Pro-Dr... http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-PRO-SSG-Setup-Under-Linux.aspx http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-PRO-SS...

Its really odd that AMD is pushing so strongly with Open Source Linux Drivers / Open Source Vulkan Drivers / ROCm and then they come out with a $7000-card that doesn't work on Linux. With that said, their "standard Vega" chips: the WX 9100, Vega Frontier, and the MI25 seem to work with Linux. Its just that this "SSG" is a $7000 anomaly. Most likely, some big corporate customer wanted this card for maybe Adobe products (Photoshop? Premier?) or maybe 3d effects like Maya. Considering that AMD's "test product" was an older SSG "Developer Edition" a few years ago, clearly some big customer wanted this card, and clearly wanted it on Windows.

bitL 9y ago
I guess it's a bleeding edge stuff if you want to avoid GPU being bottlenecked by PCIe transfer during computations, and their SW expertise is likely better on Windows. Even with the crazy SW hiring AMD does right now, it might take some time until Linux catches up.
- dragontamer 9y ago
  From my perspective, this is all opposite land. ROCm / HIP / HCC / AMD's next OpenCL implementation are all Linux-only right now, with no Windows support for the HCC compiler (even though its based on Microsoft C++ AMP).
cameldrv 9y ago
Software over there seems like it must be a total mess. There is a pretty good sized market for people training DL models that Nvidia currently owns completely that they have not yet entered simply because they haven't made Tensorflow and Pytorch work with ROCm. Even the ROCm web pages are amateurish and appear to have virtually no work behind them. Seriously, it's three very good developers and a few months of work that's holding them back from maybe a hundred million in sales, and at least 20 billion in their stock valuation from being perceived as being in the DL game.
posterboy 9y ago
maybe it just doesn't work well enough, yet. would be a pr decision to leave it out if i consider the price.

AMDGfxManager 9y ago

Support for linux was added recently. You can the info here http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-Pro-Driver-17.40-for-Linux.aspx http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-Pro-Dr... http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-PRO-SSG-Setup-Under-Linux.aspx http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-PRO-SS...