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Genuine question for you then, why are you investing your time reversing their firmware if it sounds like you think they're failing/will fail? Why not just "ado

Genuine question for you then, why are you investing your time reversing their firmware if it sounds like you think they're failing/will fail? Why not just "adopt" the golden child/golden standard NVIDIA now for your usecase, reverse that (if needed) and move on? Genuinely curious what you gain from trying to make AMD work/investing in AMD on your end here. Is it that you see a value proposition through the "muck" of crashy-kernels that I'm missing?

georgehotz 3y ago
This is my weekend hobby, I'm learning about GPUs. Besides, I'd like to see competition to NVIDIA. From a business side, tiny corp is selling boxes with both AMD and NVIDIA, we'll let the user choose how much they value money vs pain.
- rudedogg 3y ago
  What are your thoughts on using Intel GPUs for deep learning?
- doctorpangloss 3y ago
  Did you ever consider using NVIDIA? I thought the machine you were planning to sell originally had RTX 6000s. Also, isn’t the real problem with the 7900 XTX is the lack of interconnect? I really appreciate the long list of stuff you are agitating AMD about. Infinity Fabric and blower fans would be great too. Another POV is none of that is ever going to happen, and everyone will have to wait for a Chinese GPU manufacturer to create real competition. I can’t recall a single time in my life a non-Chinese company - electronics or otherwise - delivered the “same” features for a lower price.
- chem83 3y ago
  Thoughts on IREE[0]'s ability to close this gap? [0] iree.dev
braiamp 3y ago
> Why not just "adopt" the golden child/golden standard NVIDIA now for your usecase, reverse that (if needed) and move on? Oh oh, I will answer you with the business side of the thing: because Nvidia sells exactly the same thing as Tinycorp. Also, Nvidia has shown that they will crush you if they get a whiff that you are doing something they don't like, for example, speaking with a competitor. With a business partner that gets you by the balls like that, it is not sound business strategy not to depend on them.

georgehotz 3y ago

This is my weekend hobby, I'm learning about GPUs. Besides, I'd like to see competition to NVIDIA. From a business side, tiny corp is selling boxes with both AMD and NVIDIA, we'll let the user choose how much they value money vs pain.

rudedogg 3y ago
What are your thoughts on using Intel GPUs for deep learning?
doctorpangloss 3y ago
Did you ever consider using NVIDIA? I thought the machine you were planning to sell originally had RTX 6000s. Also, isn’t the real problem with the 7900 XTX is the lack of interconnect? I really appreciate the long list of stuff you are agitating AMD about. Infinity Fabric and blower fans would be great too. Another POV is none of that is ever going to happen, and everyone will have to wait for a Chinese GPU manufacturer to create real competition. I can’t recall a single time in my life a non-Chinese company - electronics or otherwise - delivered the “same” features for a lower price.
chem83 3y ago
Thoughts on IREE[0]'s ability to close this gap? [0] iree.dev

braiamp 3y ago

> Why not just "adopt" the golden child/golden standard NVIDIA now for your usecase, reverse that (if needed) and move on? Oh oh, I will answer you with the business side of the thing: because Nvidia sells exactly the same thing as Tinycorp. Also, Nvidia has shown that they will crush you if they get a whiff that you are doing something they don't like, for example, speaking with a competitor. With a business partner that gets you by the balls like that, it is not sound business strategy not to depend on them.