I think you'll be in for Another Massive Disappointment (AMD).
The software/driver woes in their graphics division have been going on for years at this point with no clear path forward, just some statements about how they plan to fix it in the future (e.g. handling the geohot AMD rant back in June).
It's not just ML either - on the gaming side, some people swallow the Nvidia price premium for the better drivers.
I made irrational purchasing decisions in the past to support the underdog, likening it to using Firefox. Unfortunately with AMD you just get a worse product.
What's annoying is that things don't have to be this way. If our chipmakers like Apple, AMD and Intel were able to actually work together, we could make a proper GPGPU library that puts CUDA in the grave. Nvidia is betting on these companies being driven further apart though, and they just won't stop being proven right.
We need FAANG to put aside their differences to fund an alternative, or else FAANG will suffer the consequences.
> I think you'll be in for Another Massive Disappointment (AMD).
Nah, I pretty much gave up on AMD when the 7000 series launch was imminent and still no ML real support for the 6000 series. Not that I was even expecting anything. With the way Intel Arc is coming along, any ML support for Radeon is just a bonus. I refuse to pay the Nvidia tax until it becomes clear there is no other option again. Nvidia just really rubbed me the wrong way with the latest generation.
Nvidia’s drivers are of horrid quality. They basically been break-fix-break-fix-break-fix on Destiny 2 and Sea of Thieves, with the broken version dropping a locked 144FPS PC to ~50FPS.
The software/driver woes in their graphics division have been going on for years at this point with no clear path forward, just some statements about how they plan to fix it in the future (e.g. handling the geohot AMD rant back in June).
It's not just ML either - on the gaming side, some people swallow the Nvidia price premium for the better drivers.