AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem

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• finley@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fucking do it. Anything that takes down Nvidia is CUDA Monopoly has my full support.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a general rule, don’t use a corporations language. Languages, and their reference implementation, should be truly independent.

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t let a word have that much power over your life

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Squish them like bug. Show me you can do it, AMD.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Narrator: They couldn’t.

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    • istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AMD seems to be doing great: seekingalpha.com/…/4718576-amd-stock-ai-accelerat…

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• TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anything to help them take on Nvidia and stay competitive is a good move. However, I wish they would also announce a recommitment to driver and software stability. I had to move to Nvidia for my workstation rig after having constant stability issues with numerous AMD cards across multiple builds.

  I wish their GPU line received even a portion of the polish and care that their CPU line did.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, I’ve had the exact opposite experience. I had to move away from a 1080 Ti that I was having constant instability with, even after I went back to the retailer and got a new card.

    Unfortunately at the time, AMD didn’t have anything performance competitive. But it was worth the downgrade for the better drivers.

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had to move away from a 1080 Ti that I was having constant instability with, even after I went back to the retailer and got a new card.

      Was it the card or was it something else? Any chance you have a 13th or 14th gen Intel CPU?

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a Linux user, I had to trade in my Nvidia laptop for one with an AMD GPU due to how unstable the Nvidia drivers were and how many problems they were giving me. With the AMD laptop, I have had zero issues.

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    • russjr08@bitforged.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did the same move for similar reasons! Although I still keep windows around on another SSS - and even the Windows Nvidia drivers were being funky for me.

      Nvidia shares a lot of logic between their Windows and Linux driver as far as I’m aware, so I suppose it makes sense.

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• jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This checks out after what they recently did to the ZLUDA project. As an owner of an AMD gpu I agree that ROCM support is really bad. It works half of the time and fairly poorly.

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• lustyargonian@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When AMD moved on from its GCN microarchitecture back in 2019, the company decided to split its new graphics microarchitecture into two different designs, with RDNA designed to power gaming graphics products for the consumer market while the CDNA architecture was designed specifically to cater to compute-centric AI and HPC workloads in the data center.

  I wonder if CDNA will be more akin to Tensor Cores on RTX GPUs, leading to better ray tracing performance of gaming.

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tensor cores have nothing to do with raytracing. They’re cut-down GPU cores specialising in tensor operations (hence the name) and nothing else. Raytracing is accelerated by RT cores, doing BVH traversal operations and ray intersections, the tensor cores are in there to run a denoiser to turn the noisy mess that real-time RT produces into something that’s, well, not messy. Upscaling, essentially, the only difference between denoising and upscaling is that in upscaling the noise is all square.

    And judging by how AMD has done this stuff before nope they won’t do separate cores, but make sure that the ordinary cores can do all that stuff well.

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• Disaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Will I even be able to afford one? Still rocking a Radeon VII here…

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you bought it for $700 back in the day, that’s $1000+ in current dollars

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    • Disaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. My paycheck has sadly not scaled in a similar manner :(

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fermi 2.0?

  Or is this going to be more like kepler where the consumer grade stuff doesn’t have all of the power hungry features, and the datacenter stuff gets them?

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