• ShadowRam@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Vote with your wallet

    I did.

    I bought my 3080 back in 2020, because I knew AI was the future of graphics, based on all the R&D and white papers nVidia was pumping out up to that point.

    No regrets.

    Not my problem nVidia was the only one to invest in the tech, while AMD relied solely on TSMC to shrink their dies.

    It has nothing to do with brand loyalty or fanboys or any of that shit.

    It’s just straight up better tech.

    • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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      8 months ago

      If you train AI models then you probably rely on CUDA and you’re really left without any meaningful choice. It also wouldn’t matter if AMD jumped 100% on AI even 5 years ago because CUDA has been so intensely adopted by the industry and AMD would need to do something completely novel and extremely impressive to have any chance of making a meaningful dent in just 5 years time.

      As such I don’t really blame you, as I said in my above post as well. I blame the gamers, the people that don’t use CUDA and just play video games, the people complaining about how expensive GPUs have become while still fucking buying nVidia cards. The fact that AMD can deliver a product that costs less at the same performance point (without RT) is pretty impressive given their miniscule volumes compared to nVidia.