I appreciate that there are people in academia working on this problem, but it seems like something AMD would have to fix internally if they were serious.
It's insane to me that AMD is not spending billions and billions trying to fix their software. Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world and AMD is the only one poised to compete.
I worked at at a number of GPU vendors, and it felt like Nvidia was the only one that took software as an asset worth investing in, rather than as a cost center. Massively different culture.
I think many people tried making AMD GPU go brrr for the mass of the developers but no one succeeded.
I don't get why AMD doesn't solve their own software issues. Now they have a lot of money so not having money to pay for developers is not an excuse.
And data centers GPUs are not the worst. Using GPU compute for things like running inference at home is a much, much better experience with Nvidia. My 5 years old RTX 3090 is better than any consumer GPU AMD released up to this date, at least for experimenting with ML and AI.
I appreciate that there are people in academia working on this problem, but it seems like something AMD would have to fix internally if they were serious.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923188 for HipKittens discussion
It's insane to me that AMD is not spending billions and billions trying to fix their software. Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world and AMD is the only one poised to compete.
I worked at at a number of GPU vendors, and it felt like Nvidia was the only one that took software as an asset worth investing in, rather than as a cost center. Massively different culture.
I think many people tried making AMD GPU go brrr for the mass of the developers but no one succeeded.
I don't get why AMD doesn't solve their own software issues. Now they have a lot of money so not having money to pay for developers is not an excuse.
And data centers GPUs are not the worst. Using GPU compute for things like running inference at home is a much, much better experience with Nvidia. My 5 years old RTX 3090 is better than any consumer GPU AMD released up to this date, at least for experimenting with ML and AI.
And the developer experience is horrible when working with AMD. They don’t even accept driver crash bug reports.
It's not my favorite internet meme but I'm tickled to see "go brr" on a website/university like Stanford
They already "went brr" when they announced ThunderKittens a year ago: https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2024-05-12-tk
This meme is tired. Let it rest boss.