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For OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on Linux, AMD sort of fell into a good software culture by accident by hiring a bunch of good people that brought the Linux (kerne
by ahartmetz 3y ago
For OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on Linux, AMD sort of fell into a good software culture by accident by hiring a bunch of good people that brought the Linux (kernel) / Xorg / Mesa culture with them. I am pretty happy with the results there!
Not contradicting you about the other areas, although I do have some hope because things (well... mostly hardware) have already improved in the GPU department under Lisa Su.
- kkielhofner 3y agoSu has been CEO of AMD for nearly 10 years. Does not contribute to my confidence. Of course with the AI goldrush they're paying a lot of lip-service to ROCm (pumping stock price?) but a couple of examples: 1) They just added official support to ROCm for the top-end consumer card they released over a year ago. Meanwhile in CUDA land Nvidia back-ported support to CUDA 11.8 well before Ada Lovelace/Hopper even launched. Worked with everything out there day of launch. Even newest CUDA 12 and their drivers support anything with Nvidia stamped on it from the past 6-7 years. Literally everything. 2) Just check their repos, Docker Hub, etc. It's embarrassing for them. They used Python 3.10 for ROCm 5.7 because its basically the bare-minimum/standard for any broader AI, ML, etc project. Oh neat, they released ROCm 6 to support their year old ~ $1000 card! Python 3.9? Ubuntu 20.04? What the hell? Pytorch "hello world" usable but almost nothing else even runs. The further you dig the more clownish it gets.