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I don't understand how AMD has messed up so badly that I feel like celebrating a project like this. Features of my laptop are just physically there but not usab
by juujian 2y ago
I don't understand how AMD has messed up so badly that I feel like celebrating a project like this. Features of my laptop are just physically there but not usable, particularly in Linux. So frustrating.
- djbusby 2y agoSame boat, AMD CPU but nothing else. I feel like a moderate improvement of their FOSS support, drivers would open new hardware revenue - to say nothing about the AI channel.
- ActorNightly 2y agoI don't know if I would call it a mess up. AMD still has massive market in server chips, and their ARM stuff is on the horizon. We all assume that graphics cards are the way forward for ML, which may not be the case in the future. Nvidia were just ahead in this particular category due to CUDA, so AMD may have just let them run with it for now.
- jeroenhd 2y agoAMD hardware works fine, the problem is that the major research projects everyone copies are all developed specifically for Nvidia. Now AMD is spinning up CUDA compatibility layer after CUDA compatibility layer. It's like trying to beat Windows by building another ReactOS/Wine. It's an approach doomed to fail unless AMD somehow manages to gain vastly more resources than the competition. Apple's NPU may not be very powerful, but many models have been altered specifically to run on them, making their NPUs vastly more useful than most equivalently powerful iGPUs. AMD doesn't have that just yet, they're always catching up. It'll be interesting to see what Qualcomm will do to get developers to make use of their NPUs on the new laptop chips.
- JonChesterfield 2y agoInteresting analogy. The last few programs from the windows world I tried to run were flawless under wine and abjectly failed under windows 11.