alt Hacker NewsI have a mi50 with 16gb of hbm thats collecting dust (its Vega bases, so it can play games, I guess) because I don’t want to bother setting up a system with Ubuntu 20.04, the last version of Ubuntu the last version of ROCM that supported the MI50 works on.
With situations like this, its not hard to see why Nvidia totally dominates in the compute/ai market.
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AMD did over $5 billion in GPU compute (Instinct line) last year. Not nVidia numbers but also not bad. Customers love that they can actually get Instinct system rather than trying to compete with the hyperscalers for limited supplies of nVidia systems. Meta and Microsoft are the two biggest buyers of AMD Instincts, though...
AMD Instinct is also more power efficient and has comparable (if not better) performance for the same (or less) price.
The MI50 may be considered deprecated in newer releases, but it seems to work fine in my experience. I have a Radeon VII in my workstation (which shares the same architecture) and I host the MI60 test machine for Debian AI Team. I haven't had any trouble with them.