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I bought AMD specifically because they didn't prioritize AI the way Nvidia did.
I bought AMD products for Linux support, and even bought one share of their stock back in the 1st gen Ryzen days. I've stayed a customer and shareholder because I was happy that they weren't prioritizing AI. I'll be honest though lately some of their moves towards AI, and even that deal they made getting in on the OpenAI money circle bubble have left me questioning my continued support. Part of me wants to sell my share in protest, but I know that won't even be noticed. Another part of me wants to sell my share because it'll probably lose value when the bubble pops, but even if it went to zero I'd only be out around $30, and at this point, profiting even a couple hundred bucks off the AI bubble feels like taking blood money.
At this point in my life I've learned to just play the game. I hate the rule makers and want the rules changed, but you only hurt yourself if you don't play.
Dude, this is a discussion forum. I think people are allowed to discuss things.
Think of it as scamming an AI bro out of a couple hundred bucks.
I went AMD because I don't like poor connector design.
The thing is, Nvidia doesn't care. They make way more money from the business sector. More and more businesses don't care about the average consumer, they care about the consumers with deep pockets.
Yeah, but AMD and Nvidia's consumer GPUs don't exist in a vacuum. They are companies with entire portfolios of things to sell. I know people are frustrated and maybe it helps them to downvote, but it's the truth. Nvidia doesn't give a shit about the consumer market now (neither does Samsung, Crucial, etc...). AMD doesn't have the leverage to squeeze the market like Nvidia does, hence the price drop referenced in the article while the price of a 5090 is still going up. I don't know why any gamer would buy Nvidia though. Unless you want to do AI workloads, they've priced themselves out of being reasonable. Heck, even for AI, AMD gives more RAM at a lower cost and ROCM continually gets better.
What, the original comment in this thread is about the comment about AI? Nobody in this comment thread said anything about Linux support other than you just now. You're lost in the thread.
Consumer hardware has always been an R&D recoup for the business sector.