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My theory is that AMD initially wanted to compete in compute with nVidia and was going to improve ROCm but then they saw how much trouble nVidia had with artifi
by mrguyorama 3y ago
My theory is that AMD initially wanted to compete in compute with nVidia and was going to improve ROCm but then they saw how much trouble nVidia had with artificially keeping enterprise users from just buying consumer GPUs instead of the much more profitable enterprise GPUs so they trashed that idea to keep consumer GPUs from interfering with their very profitable enterprise GPU business for compute applications.
- JonChesterfield 3y agoRocm was designed and implemented for HPC. There's no cunning scheme to stop it working on gaming cards, there just isn't (wasn't?) much investment in making it work either.
- mrguyorama 3y agoI'm suggesting they gave up on investment on making it work when they realized good compute on their consumer cards would cannibalize their enterprise cards like what nVidia is experiencing