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I think a lot of people would consider alternatives if there were some. Sourcing AMD hardware is a PITA, even just renting for validation. On the consumer side, AMD announced they are done with top end GPUs for the time being.

I agree with you on marketing but Nvidia's relationships with the big cloud providers and big companies is more important. It locks AMD out.

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> On the consumer side, AMD announced they are done with top end GPUs for the time being.

You reminded me of the many "let's hope that the next AMD GPU is super fast so Nvidia cuts the prices on their XXX GPU" I regularly see on hardware boards.

Haha, I think that hope is officially dead. Although, Nvidia hardly cares about graphics right now so AMD might release a good gaming card even if it isn't "the best". Rising prices on the "best" will mean gamers never have them anyway.

That right along with "this year will be the year of Linux on the desktop."

Surprisingly enough, several large systems on the top500 list use AMD (and even intel?!!) GPUs.

To me this indicates that AMD and intel have the potential to compete with Nvidia, but they haven't managed to translate that into the general AI/non-HPC market.

I have used some of those systems, namely frontier (AMD). In the case of frontier, it is the US gov hedge their bets. The super computer before was Nvidia and the next is intel. Bunch of politics there which don't translate to business but make a ton of sense for a government.

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