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> This confirms what everyone who ever touched AMD GPGPUs knows -- that the only thing holding back AMD from becoming a 2 Trillion dollar company is their absol
by KronisLV 3y ago
> This confirms what everyone who ever touched AMD GPGPUs knows -- that the only thing holding back AMD from becoming a 2 Trillion dollar company is their absolutely atrocious software.
I actually rather enjoyed the AMD Software in particular, since it made very easy to tweak graphics (limit framerates to 60 when I don't want the GPU maxing out when games/software don't support it by default), setup instant replays with a hotkey press (like Shadowplay, where it has a constant recording buffer of the last X minutes) and also both power limit the GPU (when my UPS wasn't very good) as well as overclock it automatically (since I still want to squeeze like a year out of my RX 580).
Except that any version of the software/drivers after around 2020 crashes VR titles after less than an hour. And that there is no software package for Linux and CoreCtrl isn't as good. And that sometimes the instant replay thing just doesn't work. And that I haven't been able to get ROCm working with any of the local LLMs even once across both Windows and Linux (DKMS sure loved to do a whole bunch of pointless compiling upon each apt upgrade).
I'm honestly considering either going for Intel Arc as my next GPU because I'm curious, or just going back to something from Nvidia, so it's probably a split between: A580, RX 6600, RTX 3050. Or maybe I can hold out until other parts drop in price, time will tell.