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Comment by AaronFriel | Hacker News Reader

AMD doesn't support any recent consumer GPUs, and they have long-standing support issues failing to build which are sometimes only resolved a year or more after launch.

Just see this thread for an example of the frustration people feel: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887

This hasn't been an issue with day one CUDA and ML functionality on any recent Nvidia GPUs.

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While AMD might not have "official" support for their consumer hardware lineup on offerings that have traditionally been a non-consumer area of GPGPU, there is plenty of evidence that it will indeed still work just fine on most of them (once compiled properly and sometimes with the right environment flags); as witnessed by me and even people in the link you reference. I agree that "official" support would be great eventually, but for me as long as it works, that's adequate enough for me on consumer hardware.

I think the thread I linked shows there is substantial frustration here, and the reason I didn't purchase a Navi card was in part due to widespread reports that ROCm was untenable on the platform.

> once compiled properly and sometimes with the right environment flags

Not interested in apologism for the corporation. If AMD wants to compete with CUDA, they have to support the consumer GPUs that are accessible to hobbyists and non-experts. This is user hostile support.

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