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On the other hand AMD has a fraction of the engineering resources Intel and Nvidia have. They need to make some choice and looking back at the last few years it
by nicolaslem 5y ago
On the other hand AMD has a fraction of the engineering resources Intel and Nvidia have. They need to make some choice and looking back at the last few years it seems that their choice to focus their efforts on hardware and gaming paid off.
- to11mtm 5y agoATI/AMD has always had finicky drivers and engineering decisions IMO. I guess on the plus side they at least have a more open driver than NVidia (AFAIK nouveau doesn't get any support from them, at least AMD tries to maintain their open source driver on some level.) And yet, every time I've tried an ATI/AMD Card, the driver experience even in windows has been pretty off-putting, and while I suppose we are finally at a point where one is less likely to be impacted by their issues with 768p overscan on TVs, I wonder what zany quirk they'll come up with next.
- ahartmetz 5y ago> AMD tries to maintain their open source driver on some level. I think you somehow mistyped "AMD has open source drivers of absofuckinglutely excellent quality supporting hardware of the last ten years or so". No really, they are great. For graphics, that is.
- dagmx 5y agoOn the flip side, I think that they haven't focused on a compelling compute story means that anyone doing anything other than pure gaming is better served by an Nvidia card.
- jagger27 5y agoThis is why I'm excited about Intel getting into the market.
- edgyquant 5y agoYeah I bought an AMD card a few years when they released the new architecture to support them. I ended up grabbing an nvidia card because I don’t play many games but I want to be able to run tensorflow etc but after a year AMD still had little support for any machine learning.