In a race against NVIDIA where every comment on here is about just how much better CUDA is than any alternative, why doesn't literally what you just said "also" have the attention of Lisa Su?
AMD is structurally incapable of fixing these issues. They don't even have a 7900XTX in CI. Crashing the firmware is so trivial there's no way anyone fuzzed anything.
They debug by the application, adding mitigations at many layers of the stack to make it work. While this strategy is fine for the 20 mainstream games that come out per year, unless you root cause issues and have a good CI, you'll never build a stable GPU for general compute.
You read stories in the glory days of Microsoft where they would bend over backwards to ensure backwards compatibility [0]. Going from that to what you say is depressing. It’s actually hard for me to accept your statement because such a failure would not only require QA/the PM to be totally ignorant of current testing best practices, but also require HR to have catastrophically misidentified both those people and the people who supervise them.
Keep up the great work.
[0]https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191119-00/?p=10...
From a business side, tiny corp is selling boxes with both AMD and NVIDIA, we'll let the user choose how much they value money vs pain.
Also, isn’t the real problem with the 7900 XTX is the lack of interconnect? I really appreciate the long list of stuff you are agitating AMD about. Infinity Fabric and blower fans would be great too. Another POV is none of that is ever going to happen, and everyone will have to wait for a Chinese GPU manufacturer to create real competition. I can’t recall a single time in my life a non-Chinese company - electronics or otherwise - delivered the “same” features for a lower price.
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Oh oh, I will answer you with the business side of the thing: because Nvidia sells exactly the same thing as Tinycorp. Also, Nvidia has shown that they will crush you if they get a whiff that you are doing something they don't like, for example, speaking with a competitor. With a business partner that gets you by the balls like that, it is not sound business strategy not to depend on them.