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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been running PopOS with an RTX 3080 for years now and I’m absolutely happy and zero chance of switching back to this Microsoft trash.

  I have a problem with how AMD handles their software called “Rocm”. It’s basically AMD’s version of CUDA and it’s a complete mess. It’s ambiguous which cards are supported and which aren’t. They have gotten better with this problem over the past few years. But for example, their latest private customer graphics card is only supported on Ubuntu. Other products are only supported on other distros. Some cards, who aren’t even listed as supported, are very well supported in all distros. That’s what I mean, it’s a mess. Essentially, the only way to find out is take the bullet and plug it in, see what happens. I mean, Nvidia is a trash company that makes Apple and Microsoft look like saints. But at least, if you buy one of their products, you know it runs CUDA. No support matrix needed. Everything, no matter how old it is, supports CUDA. The company and their graphics cards are still trash though. Unless you buy the most expensive model, of course. Then all of your problems miraculously go away. cries in 10GB VRAM

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  • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    their latest card is only supported on Ubuntu

    Where did you read this? As far as I know and has open sourced all their graphics drivers and they’ve all been wrapped into Mesa, which is available on all distros

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    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      rocm.docs.amd.com/…/system-requirements.html

      Click on the footnote next to the 9070 XT.

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      • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thank you for clarifying, my bad😅

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  • accideath@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Touché. While Mesa is rock solid, using AMD cards for compute is indeed a fool‘s errand.

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