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points by zdw 3 days ago | 0 comments

AMD has their Strix/Gorgon Halo as a competitor to DGX Spark, which is at least in the ballpark in terms of bandwidth, and being x86 has some compatibility benefits.

If you wanted a GPU with 32GB of memory for AI tasks, the AMD AI Pro R9700 was (up until about a month ago) reasonably priced at ~$1300. It's not a RTX 5090 in terms of bandwidth and compute, but for the price and being actually purchasable it's a reasonable pick.

[–] mickeyp 3 days ago

I like to think that if there are wins to be had, the market will price that in.

Those cards are cheap because they're not really that amazing.

[–] 0xc133 3 days ago

Yeah, about that. Those cards all have MSRPs that have moved north by over $500 since launch.

[–] ethbr1 3 days ago

It's interesting having a quantifiable number of how much AMD was underinvesting in decent software for their hardware.

[–] mickeyp 3 days ago

Meanwhile, the 5090...

[–] wmf 3 days ago

This is somewhat true. A lot of AMD hardware is underpriced at launch because ROCm doesn't work yet. Then once ROCm is working the price moves up to what it should be.