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Just using the card for gaming? Absolutely go with AMD. But most of the ML libraries and tooling is built on top of CUDA, so getting things to work with an AMD
by pseudo0 3y ago
Just using the card for gaming? Absolutely go with AMD. But most of the ML libraries and tooling is built on top of CUDA, so getting things to work with an AMD card can be annoying and have worse performance despite better hardware specs on paper.
- wlesieutre 3y agoAnd yet the Steam hardware survey has Nvidia at 76% compared to AMD at 15%. Most of that isn't because of ML performance.
- pseudo0 3y agoYeah, a lot of that is inertia. Most people don't upgrade video cards all that frequently which explains the popularity of the GTX 1650 (2019), GTX 1060 and 1070 (2016), etc. Those cards still work reasonably well for people who don't need bleeding edge performance or ray tracing. I'd expect their market share to improve over the next couple years as some of those cards age out of circulation.
- throw9away6 3y agoAvailability is a huge problem for ati cards. There weren’t that many out there in the last 2 years where nvida vendors at least had a bunch of overpriced options