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They'd maybe have a shot if they'd delivered anything in the enterprise market. Some of us are desperate to get a decent alternative to NVIDIA (AMD software sto
by touisteur 4y ago
They'd maybe have a shot if they'd delivered anything in the enterprise market. Some of us are desperate to get a decent alternative to NVIDIA (AMD software story is... not there, but at least you can find some MI100 or MI250 gear if you're lucky) and Intel keeps not delivering the enterprise GPUs we're begging them for.
Not even asking for a A100/H100 level thing now, but please break the A40 30-TFLOPS-and-lower-market (I even don't mind putting two 'max' 1100 for one A40...).
Just start selling some gear to benchmark and port stuff to sycl dammit. No big OEM (HPE, Dell, Lenovo) has any to put in their servers (or at least they're not selling them to me) and why make it so hard.
Either Intel doesn't remember how to sell server gear or they can't deliver anything but supercomputer stuff and EVEN THERE it's still spotty it seems.
- simfree 4y agoAMD's software stack is usable if your willing to run a buggy distro like Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. You know it's buggy when the Ubuntu installer gets on the network just fine, but it misnames the Ethernet interface and chokes on the WiFi drivers firmware. Meanwhile Debian 10 and 11 just work on the same hardware with zero futzing or debugging m
- touisteur 4y agoWhich is good for benchmarking, good for AMD (and interesting to hear, thanks) but doesn't bode well for production use. But AT LEAST you can buy some gear and get some dev mindshare and perf numbers.