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"Future plan"... it's been years and it's still "future plan". I want to buy AMD because they are more open than Nvidia. But Nvidia supports CUDA day one for a
by ebegnwgnen 6y ago
"Future plan"... it's been years and it's still "future plan".
I want to buy AMD because they are more open than Nvidia. But Nvidia supports CUDA day one for all their graphic cards and AMD still don't have rocm support on most of their product even years after their release [0]
Given AMD size & budget, the reason why they don't hire a few more employee full time on making rocm work with their own graphic card is beyond me.
The worst is how they keep people in waiting. It's always vague phrases like "not currently", "may be supported in the future", " "future plan", " we cannot comment on specific model support ", etc.
AMD doesn't want rocm on consumer card ? Then say it. Stop making me check rocm repos every week to get always more disappointed.
AMD plans to support it on consumer card ? Then say it and give a release date : "In May 2021 , the RX 6800 will get rocm support, thanks for your patience and your trust in our product".
I like AMD for their openness and support of standards, but they are so unprofessional when it comes to Compute
[0] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887 https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887
- 01100011 6y ago> why they don't hire a few more employee The reason is that it would take more than a few more employees to provide optimized support across all GPUs. If nothing else, it's a significant testing burden.
- dkersten 6y agoI really don't want to buy Nvidia, but AMD really isn't an alternative if you do anything outside of gaming...