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Intel fanboi alert

• benreesman 3y ago
  I’ve bought processors (and GPUs) from all the major vendors and always been pleased when competition got me a better deal, either individually or on behalf of a business. It’s more like a competition fanboi alert, and watching NVIDIA sit at 1.2T in cap while AMD sits at 175B with competitive (if not strictly parity) GPUs because apparently writing a driver stack that works is out of reach for a company that could trivially finance a Sheryl-style “triple the comp of all the CUDA ballers” just…decides not to? Yeah, I’d like to see some pressure applied by people who know how to write drivers, document their gear, and obviously haven’t cut a deal about supercompute vs. AI-per-se. Zen4 is awesome, add in the TSMC edge? It’s what you’ve got on multi-core x86_64 at the moment. Would I like to see alternatives to Epyc and 4090s that have the same 24Gb of GDDR6 that my 2090s did? Yes I fucking would. And would I like to see Taiwan treated like a nation and not a geopolitical football? That sounds pretty much ethically right too. I cordially invite your input on where I’ve gotten this wrong.
  • beebeepka 3y ago
    Rooting for for intel in the name of competition is rather ironic. Oh, how fast some of you "forget" what things used to be even five years ago