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More than likely they are testing it on specific server setups with a dedicated GPU handling compute workloads. Think supercomputers and maybe cloud provider se
by roenxi 3y ago
More than likely they are testing it on specific server setups with a dedicated GPU handling compute workloads. Think supercomputers and maybe cloud provider setups. That'd make sense if someone in AMD ranked the opportunities by $ value and started working down the list fixing bugs.
My anecdotal evidence with an AMD GPU is there are serious problems trying to use a graphics card to run graphics and throwing a few compute tasks at it - because X11 will reliably crash and the kernel graphics driver enters some sort of corrupt state. I think that is a use case that was beyond their design considerations to start with.
There is a hint that servers are targeted because they supported linux first with ROCm, and had a very tight support matrix of what OS they expected people to use. Unfortunately, this strategy generates a lot of bad publicity and I'd guess has trouble gaining traction because people can't experiment cheaply with AMD hardware. They're progressing though and even with a dose of cynicism about their wherewithal there is a lot in the pipe that has the potential to take on CUDA. Even APUs are promising.