AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13

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[smitty3268]

smitty3268 Moving home and professional users to the same platform will help make AMD more competitive with NVIDIA. You buy NVIDIA and you have CUDA and all the current features available on whatever GPU you buy.

If you care about professional uses, then obviously going with a card designed primarily for professional use-cases is the best option. Most consumers don't care about CUDA though.

The promise AMD made was that by designing rdna specifically for consumer use, it would be cheaper and better at that than by just getting a cut down pro card. Obviously that has failed, which I think is why they are killing off the line and falling back to their old strategy again.

Anyway, I'm not saying that's a terrible thing. It will certainly simplify creating the hardware for AMD, and maybe that will end up being better all around anyway, but it was at the very least a sign to me that they were wanting to cut down expenses on the gpu consumer side. These layoffs just kind of confirm that for me.

[mitch971]

combined with a lot of the world not having very strong labor laws helps to prevent unionization efforts

Mainly in the US, here in France you can unionize pretty easily

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[skeevy420]

If you care about professional uses, then obviously going with a card designed primarily for professional use-cases is the best option. Most consumers don't care about CUDA though.

The promise AMD made was that by designing rdna specifically for consumer use, it would be cheaper and better at that than by just getting a cut down pro card. Obviously that has failed, which I think is why they are killing off the line and falling back to their old strategy again.

Anyway, I'm not saying that's a terrible thing. It will certainly simplify creating the hardware for AMD, and maybe that will end up being better all around anyway, but it was at the very least a sign to me that they were wanting to cut down expenses on the gpu consumer side. These layoffs just kind of confirm that for me.

To me it was a sign that they needed money so they implemented a strategy where people who used AMD were forced into buying more than one AMD GPU. The long term effect of that is that nowadays everything has CUDA support and ROCm is an afterthought if its even a thought at all.

While most consumers don't care about CUDA, enough of them do which is why it is so prevalent and easy-to-use on Linux. ROCm has been a nightmare.

Most consumers don't care about Linux. There are probably more CUDA users on Windows than there are people running Linux desktops.

Most consumers don't know what a tariff is. It didn't stop them for voting for them. What's a tariff? What does it mean to be a member of the E.U.? Did Biden drop out? We might be individually smart here and there, but we're collective morons.

Most consumers

We are the Borg. Prepare to be assimi....

*watches 2 girls 1 cup*

Locate the nearest transwarp conduit.

[skeevy420]

Mainly in the US, here in France you can unionize pretty easily

I envy y'all. I wish my people had your peoples' courage and bravery.

[smitty3268]

To me it was a sign that they needed money so they implemented a strategy where people who used AMD were forced into buying more than one AMD GPU. The long term effect of that is that nowadays everything has CUDA support and ROCm is an afterthought if its even a thought at all.

CUDA was the only thing that mattered for compute before rdna existed, and it's still the only thing that matters today. I don't see anything AMD has done with their hardware which made an impact either way on that. CUDA simply got a big head start, and ROCm barely works, and that's all based on software not hardware.

[sfjuocekr]

It would be more beneficial to have more fine grained control.

Have the whole system run on the frequency policy, but specific applications that the user selects use the cache policy instead?

Also, applications could probably be smarter about their behavior as well if this was exposed in some way.