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AMD still hasy loyalty, unfortunately, due to having the least dogshit Linux drivers.
TBH intel has that loyalty too
LOL, loyalty.
I was completely decided to switch to AMD, but now I might go Intel....
In gonna fab my own silicone. I'm gonna shine a strobe light through a magnifying glass and drip some liquid in front of it and have it all reflect on some sand I throw on a mirror.
I saw a video on how ASML does it and instantly knew I could do it better. I'm gonna have Bixby help me vibe code this. If anyone wants in on my industry shattering company before I open for 2.6 trillion inbox me.
Hello I think 2.6 trillion is too little for your visionary idea. I offer you 10 trillion at a valuation of 1 quadrillion. That's right, I only want 1% of your company in exchange for 10 trillion dollars, because I see no way this could go tits up.
You had me at tits. Let's do this.
This literally cant go tits up. Guh
Sorry, I lost you at Bixby. You're gonna just end up with a pile of sand with cat poop in it if you use Bixby.
The fact that you were fine with everything up until that says a lot
You're saying my idea spans MORE THAN ONE INDUSTRY????
Bullish on cat poo futures now.
I might go for an abacus
Im really bummed that intel is the only still viable choice, hoping that they will keep surprising me but i do have doubts..
I hope they keep working on their GPUs its not an easy market but a VERY welcome one to have competition in.
I really like my 7800xt and 5800x3D, they're good enough for what I need. I do not like AMD as a business, or frankly, any of the alternatives.
If/When my parts die, I really don't know what I'll do. Even if I didn't hate what these companies stand for, I couldn't afford the insanely inflated prices of their products right now. I might just be priced out of the hobby.
Go intel. Seriously, their mid range CPUs are becoming solid budget alternative.
If/When that time comes, buy used if possible, avoid putting more money in their wallets
The reasons I got an AMD GPU for my gaming machine:
- much better support for Linux gaming
That’s it. That’s the list.
Neither Nvidia nor AMD (nor also-ran Intel) have come out with meaningfully novel hardware approaches in a long fucking time. It’s all horizontal scaling on the die (plus “let’s add more memory”) combined with incremental efficiency improvements in die layouts and chip lithography process / feature size.
This is why monopolies are bad. They have a vested interest in acquiring and/or killing any company - indeed, any innovation - that has even a slight potential to disrupt their market dominance.
meaningfully novel hardware approaches
This isn't really possible anymore (at least unaided by LLM). In the era of fixed function pipelines, it was possible to do something new under the hood.
The current standards of Vulkan and DirectX have exposed a lot of inner workings to extract performance which makes it hard to make a large shift. While this makes it easy to use the HW, it also makes it hard for the devs to have a single algorithm for diff HWs, ie, each new feature will need in investment by them.
For any novel functionality, devs will not like to work on features only on a small set of HW, unless they are aided by HW vendors. This creates a chicken egg situation: new features don't get prioritized up by devs which makes it hard to market the features which makes it a small market which makes it likely not to be a priority by devs.
In this era where code is cheap, perhaps we'll see more fast moving devs and HW both
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I expressed this earlier, but graphics was the original priority of AMD/Nvidia.
Not just gaming.
Workstation work and other niches made up a serious sale of shares. And AMD/Nvidia have always invested a ton exploring those niches.
Hence I mean to imply:
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…Don’t make gaming so self-important, at least not more than it was.
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But also, these corporations were not “loyal to gamers” even before the AI bubble. They had fingers in the pies, and the press documented their many exploits against gamers.
i'm loyal to my radeon that is already in my system.
Make good GPUs, sell them at reasonable prices. Call me if you need any further advice.
I'd also like if they weren't actively complicit in genocide. that would be cool.
amd: best we can do is nvidia -50usd
The 9070 XT was like $300 cheaper than the 5070 Ti for a pretty long time
Nice Gamer's Nexus reference
Companies: I'll take your entire stock! And I'll pay more than you're asking!
Nvidia has shat the bed, now AMD has a chance to publicly say something like:
While our primary focus at the moment is data centers, we remain commited to consumers with a special focus on gaming, this is why we are very happy to announce a new consumer division inside AMD! They remain commited to providing cost effective consumer and gaming CPUs and GPUs, and will keep developing Ryzen and Radeon products.
AMD never misses a chance to miss a chance.
Then again, when the competition isn't your cousin anymore maybe you stop going easy on them.
They will just follow what Nvidia does even now.
Wonder who Lisa Su will fuck to be like big boi Huang
Probably someone with the last name of Huang. Possibly Su.
They are also hoping to kill the consumer market, it's too much effort and can't be manipulated as easily by taking a b2b customer CEO out to lunch on your yacht.
It's probably easier in b2b because you can either show Max performance or Max performance per watt to close the business. For b2c, you need marketing and more downstream collaboration for products.
Absolutely, it's a whole production to be competitive in b2c. On the other hand, I think doing well in B2C has downstream benefits for business hardware sales (ASSUMING the market is not captured via backroom deals and the opinion of normal humans is a factor in sales).
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