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Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows
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Originally posted by anth View Post
I think the name indicates those are considered "professional" rather than "consumer".
The problem I see is that AMD chose to leave a gap in their offering. Other than the firepro S (2016?) and the Instinct MI50/MI60 (2018) there is nothing available to support SR-IOV. These cards are very expensive and only available as part of servers. They are clearly not designed and marketed for the end users.
AMD doesn't realize that a technology needs to be available and have visibility first before enterprises will start investing in it.
We need some real competition in this market and it is sad that Intel is the only one listening to consumers.
BTW There is a petition asking for that technology to be made available here: http://chng.it/L4d6gRrC
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postyou mean that intel which randomly restricts features on cpu models?
There is no hope for Nvidia. At least AMD and Intel (sometime) try to be open source friendly. They also both need to gain some ground in the GPU market. AMD in particular needs to reach a critical mass in the enterprise and virtualization segment. I am disappointed because I thought AMD would at least try.
As I said, we really need more competition.
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Originally posted by microcode View PostAMD should have a budget for grants to people doing interesting things with their products
Having a formal program (and it being promoted) would certainly be an interesting embracing of the open source community. I get the feeling there are already some efforts, just nothing really being promoted
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Originally posted by boxie View Post
I like this idea. bridgman do you think it is possible, or are there any schemes kinda like this currently happening that we are not aware of?
Having a formal program (and it being promoted) would certainly be an interesting embracing of the open source community. I get the feeling there are already some efforts, just nothing really being promoted
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Originally posted by N0dens View Post
Isn't AMD expected to enable sr-iov soon on consumer cards? We all know the chips are capable of doing it but in spite of many requests AMD has until now reserved these features for the Enterprise segment. Intel is already moving in that direction with Iris Xe. I know a lot of people (including me) are hoping an announcement from AMD with the release of their new architecture. If this happen then there would be no reason to make RADV run on Windows to enable virtualization. There might be other reasons to do it ... just not this one.
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