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[Marc Driftmeyer]

You'd have to ask AMD seeing as they are different architectures....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

They use Windows or OS X/macOS. When you design your platform for the server first, you tend to get interest in that area. It's the reason Linux is so...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

For every `big studio' that uses Linux, 100 use Macs....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/267151/

Right in the title of the link: [pull] amdgpu, amdkfd, ttm, scheduler drm-next-4.21
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[Marc Driftmeyer]

More importantly, 99.9% of consumers don't own an i9 9900K which enjoys the benefits of the Intel® UHD Graphics 630 iGPU....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Isn't the point of testing GPUs is to test against actual GPUs and not bumps in peformance or lag depending on which GPU benefits or suffers against a...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Raises hand in agreement with an FX-8350 on a Gigabyte 990FX PCI-E 2.0 motherboard waiting for ROCm to ``just work'' with Blender....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

That's some serious quality programming there....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

And people only need to see the dysfunction that is Khronos [most likely intentional and beneficial to Nvidia] for Apple to create Metal and now Metal...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Do we own any other games?

[Marc Driftmeyer]

100% of what is listed for 18.3 is useless outside of platform hardware inclusion references or RADV which if you don't play games that leverages Vulkan...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

You can do that with 2.79 master for the past 9 months. The UI will take time to learn, but it's definitely much more enjoyable working in Evee to work...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

It's default mouse actions are all ass backwards and forces one to completely relearn their hard earned and learned workflow from 2.7 branch. Most of...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I'm in the same boat as you with a PCE-E-2.0 Gigabyte 990FX based motherboard.

That seems like a regression or change in course by AMD as...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Gee, I recall saying AMDVLK would surpass RADV and got crapped on for it. Proof is in the pudding.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

May I inquire if you have a PCI-E 2.0 based Motherboard?

By the way it's also sad that their Debian packages hard require Ubuntu to install...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Unless one is using the workstation for creative arts it's a rather crap hole career. Having an actual engineering degree [M.E.] applying CS skills to...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Of course it was on him. The design of Vega and Polaris were under his vision. The GPU wasn't going to save AMD. The CPU was always the strength and if...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Yet they don't seem to have a problem releasing RC candidate after RC candidate of 4.19 [rc2, rc3, rc4, rc6 then nothing]. Same for 4.18 branch, 4.17...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Wake me when ROCm 2.0 and a stable amdgpu/amdkfd are in the default Linux kernel for us Polaris fans to have on any distribution. This WIP reportitis...