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"Works great" and "Could work 3x faster" matter to a lot of people.
Well then you're just nagging about hardware, which isn't the issue being spouted on here. Blender works with AMD hardware just great, which OP was saying is not the case.
No it doesn't. That's our point. It works 30% as fast as its competition. That's not "working just great"...it's working slowly and like shit. The whole damn point of a GPU is to accelerate that work. The work that your AMD-HIP is doing in blender, could take an hour, and the NVidia would pump it out in 20 minutes.
You're bitching about hardware capabilities. Read OP's comment and stop showing up just to comment if you can't provide anything constructive except whining pedantry.
Nobody is bitching. Rage less. My constructive point is that NVidia is a better option. NVidia's CUDA stack is software - and unfortunately for us, that means it's also paired with their hardware.
Many people care if choosing something is going to hobble their workflow. In this point, if you're using Blender, choosing AMD is going to hobble your productivity. I'm just stating facts.
Is your information applicable to the nouveau drivers? I’d understood they’re many years behind in performance and capability but blender has never been in my use case.