I know it’s a small set, but for gaming and is honestly king. Unless you want the absolute “I’m willing to pay double the cost for 5% more performance” top of the line, amd is just great.
For AI and compute… They’re far behind. CUDA just wins. I hope a joint standard will be coming up soon, but until then Nvidia wins
For AI and compute… They’re far behind. CUDA just wins. I hope a joint standard will be coming up soon, but until then Nvidia wins
I got a W6800 recently. I know a nvidia model of the same generation would be faster for AI - but that thing is fast enough to run stable diffusion variants with high resolution pictures locally without getting too annoyed.
The completely different software stack is a killer. It’s not that you can’t find versions of a model to run, but almost everything that hits the GPU for compute is going to be targeting CUDA, not RocM. From a compatibility standpoint alone this killed AMD for me. I just do not want to spend my time fighting the stack to get these models running.
Admittedly I’m just toying around for entertainment purposes - but I didn’t really have any problems of getting anything I wanted to try out with rocm support. Bigger annoyance was different projects targetting specific distributions or specific software versions (mostly ancient python), but as I’m doing everything in containers anyway that also was manageable.
This is really only true if you don’t count dlss which mops the floor with fsr in terms of visual quality
Or the rise of dedicated NPUs, but that will likely take even more time (speaking of regular consumers here).
I know it’s a small set, but for gaming and is honestly king.
I feel like the usecases for GPU in industry are more than AI.
Everyone I know who’s bought a GPU recently has gone used, including me
That and there just hasn’t been much gains in performance in recent years, so it makes sense to not upgrade for a while. And a lot of people upgraded all at once during the pandemic, so there are less people on the market for a new GPU.
Very true, I was using a 1080TI until a few months ago.
Where can I buy used from regular NOT scalper people?
GPU’s aren’t in a shortage like they were. The majority of new GPUs are just regular people selling them. I wouldn’t personally call it scalping if it’s below MSRP.
you can buy from Scalpers or Crypto bros larping as scalpers. The choice is yours.
Bring back 3dfx Voodoo you cowards.
AMD didn’t buy 3dfx, nVidia did.
those bastards
Hopefully, they remain competitive, I wanna try them next time I need a GPU. Would love a Sapphire card.
If you have something from the Nvidia rtx20xx generation or newer, I’m not sure how much advantage there is to upgrading at all.
