Don't feel so bad. Mining difficulty has been going up so profitability went down. Although Bitcoin Gold might encourage another mining craze if it becomes successful.
They now definitely have competitive hardware, just need to get the SW ecosystem up to par. They have made a lot of headway but still have a fair bit to go.
Totally agreed, and in fact they allow consumers to use really great enterprise features like GPU passthrough/virtualization without making them purchase a ~5k gpu, Nvidia sucks in this regard. Same with ECC ram compatibility on TR procs, Intel would never dream of offering that in the ~1k price range.
Once AMD gets their software shit together I'm prepared to buy all of my pc compute hardware from them exclusively.
I now understand the "road kill" part better. Miners may well buy AMD but they only buy high-yield products, for the most part. RAM-hungry only looks painful due to the larger volume of gaming sales. If the % of sales inverted such that miners made up the % that games currently do, you would be far more unhappy due to the sheer cost of discarding literally tons of binned silicon.
Warning: 17.10.2 driver hangs my World of Warcraft client frequently and rolling back to WHQL 17.7.2 driver fixes the issue. The PC is on Win 10 (1709) and RX 480.
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nathanddrews - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link
RIP in peace, affordable AMD GPUs. :(baka_toroi - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link
Don't feel so bad. Mining difficulty has been going up so profitability went down. Although Bitcoin Gold might encourage another mining craze if it becomes successful.geekman1024 - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link
"RIP in peace"isn't that translate in to "Rest in peace in peace", or perhaps, "Rest in peaces"?
boozed - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - link
"RIP in peace" is a meme, somewhat popular on the internet.That or ignorance. It's often impossible to tell on the internet.
boozed - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - link
Also, I should add that RIP doesn't stand for Rest In Peace.geekman1024 - Thursday, October 26, 2017 - link
Er, Reaped Into Pieces?sartwell - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link
WhooHoo! No unknown partial installation error anymore!lazarpandar - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link
GPU compute is important for deep learning as well, a market AMD *desperately* needs to catch up in.extide - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link
They now definitely have competitive hardware, just need to get the SW ecosystem up to par. They have made a lot of headway but still have a fair bit to go.lazarpandar - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link
Totally agreed, and in fact they allow consumers to use really great enterprise features like GPU passthrough/virtualization without making them purchase a ~5k gpu, Nvidia sucks in this regard. Same with ECC ram compatibility on TR procs, Intel would never dream of offering that in the ~1k price range.Once AMD gets their software shit together I'm prepared to buy all of my pc compute hardware from them exclusively.
boozed - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - link
Are the numbers in Bench updated following stable driver releases?Ryan Smith - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - link
They are updated periodically, particularly for new product reviews. But no, they aren't updated for every driver release.msroadkill612 - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - link
To this amd share holder, it seems they are in the business of selling gpuS, not ram.So assuming the mining gpu products require less of the scarce hbm2 ram, then mining products are better than ram hungry pita gamers.
lmcd - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
I now understand the "road kill" part better. Miners may well buy AMD but they only buy high-yield products, for the most part. RAM-hungry only looks painful due to the larger volume of gaming sales. If the % of sales inverted such that miners made up the % that games currently do, you would be far more unhappy due to the sheer cost of discarding literally tons of binned silicon.overseer - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Warning: 17.10.2 driver hangs my World of Warcraft client frequently and rolling back to WHQL 17.7.2 driver fixes the issue. The PC is on Win 10 (1709) and RX 480.MrSpadge - Saturday, October 28, 2017 - link
AT, could you test this compute mode in OpenCL benchmarks? I'm not interested in crypto-currencies, but everything else may be useful (to me).tipoo - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
Seconded, interested to see how big an impact it has.