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> Like, do you even realize that this the reason why Nvidia is mopping the floor with your stuff? Are they? Generally, my experience has been that AMD product
by Nullabillity 2y ago
> Like, do you even realize that this the reason why Nvidia is mopping the floor with your stuff?
Are they?
Generally, my experience has been that AMD products generally just work even if they're a bit buggy sometimes, while Nvidia struggles to get a video signal at all.
Seems perfectly reasonable to focus on what matters, while Nvidia is distracted by the AI fad.
- sigmoid10 2y agoI'm not talking about gaming, I'm talking about general purpose computing (although even for gaming your statement is pretty bold). Since she's CEO of a publicly traded company, it seems pretty weird that she would ignore the fields where the money is at, while Nvidia becomes the most valuable company in the world. So she's not just ignoring developers' wants but also her stockholders'.
- Nullabillity 2y agoGPGPU is largely a non-presence outside of a few niche fields like video encoding (which, uh, seems to work fine enough for me?).
- wmf 2y agoAI is not exactly niche.
- Nullabillity 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter It keeps being hyped up again every once in a while years, but it has never, will never, panned out in practice.
- dontwearitout 2y agoI don't know if you're out of the loop but the AI scene has dramatically changed in the past few years. We are solidly out of the AI winter.
- Nullabillity 2y agoTalking about having left "the" AI winter because we're in the middle of a hype cycle makes about as much sense as saying we can get rid of all the snow plows because the trees are currently green. There's a lot of money in the space, yes. There's still nothing of substance.
- wmf 2y agoI regret to inform you that companies like AMD run on money, not substance.
- rangestransform 2y agoeven if the LLM thing is an "AI fad" there are many other things that ML is used for that matter (to the people spending real money on GPUs - think A6000, H100, not gamer cards)
- Nullabillity 2y agoSuch as…?
- rangestransform 2y agorecommender systems for social media, automatic transcription, autonomous driving, computational photography, semantic search for photo albums, circuit board design, semiconductor mask production