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Does Nvidia have any real competition that’s already shipped?



Why would there be? The writing was on the wall that this was important 10 years ago and no one moved on it, in fact AMD and Apple both fumbled OpenCL then proceeded to waste several more years after that.

I know some people don't like Nvidia but like their competition had their opportunity and what needed to be done spelt out to them and did nothing.


That is the thing, they can allow themselves to have all that proprietary stuff, because Intel, AMD just can't get their act together.

Even the whole OpenCL versus CUDA, they had years to ship something that was great tooling alternative, instead they did everything but that.


The MI300 is the best accelerator you can buy, for many current workloads.

It's technically way more advanced. Not as outrageously priced as an H100 either.


TBH I don't know what they were counting on. 4090 has almost 3x BF16 tensor ops/s vs 7900XTX. So you can just buy a regular PC with 2x4090 for half the price and have basically the same training performance with much less headache.




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