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> ROCm on consumer cards isn't a priority for AMD, since profits are small compared to the datacentre market and there's not that many people actually using con
by daniel-thompson 6y ago
> ROCm on consumer cards isn't a priority for AMD, since profits are small compared to the datacentre market and there's not that many people actually using consumer hardware for this kind of work.
I think causality runs the other way: Profits are small and there aren't many people using AMD cards for this _because_ the developer experience for GPGPU on AMD is terrible (and that because it's not a priority for AMD).
- qayxc 6y agoThat would imply that there even was a laptop market for AMD in the first place. As the market numbers show, up until last year, AMD simply wasn't relevant at all in the notebook segment, so what developer experience are you even talking about if there were no developers on AMD's platform?
- daniel-thompson 6y agoI agree that AMD on mobile is a wasteland. But AMD has shipped over 500m desktop GPUs in the last 10 years. Surely some of those could/would have been better used for GPGPU dev if there was a decent developer experience.