alt Hacker NewsThe quantity of people on this site now that care about GPUs all of a sudden because of the explosion of LLMs, who fail to understand that GPUs are _graphics_ processors that are designed for _graphics_ workloads is insane. It almost feels like the popular opinion here is that graphics is just dead and AMD and NVIDIA should throw everything else they do in the bin to chase the LLM bag.
AMD make excellent graphics hardware, and the graphics tools are also fantastic. AMD's pricing and market positioning can be questionable but the hardware is great. They're not as strong with machine learning tasks, and they're in a follower position for tensor acceleration, but for graphics they are very solid.
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The quantity of people on this site now that think they understand modern GPUs because back in the day they wrote some opengl...
1. Both AMD and NVIDIA have "tensorcore" ISA instructions (ie real silicon/data-path, not emulation) which have zero use case in graphics
2. Ain't no one playing video games on MI300/H100 etc and the ISA/architecture reflects that
> but for graphics they are very solid.
Hmmm I wonder if AMD's overfit-to-graphics architectural design choices are a source of friction as they now transition to serving the ML compute market... Hmmm I wonder if they're actively undoing some of these choices...
Just having fun with an out of context quote.
> graphics is just dead and AMD and NVIDIA should throw everything else they do in the bin to chase the LLM bag
No graphics means that games of the future will be like:
"You have been eaten by a ClautGemPilot."