People refuse to believe it, but the AMD experience is getting better every day by leaps and bounds. Over the last few months, there is a brand new focus on improving the software. There is still a long way to go, but the company is absolutely trying to save itself.
AMD has legitimately been making great progress. They still have a long way to go, and I appreciate SemiAnalysis taking up the mantle of calling them out, but I ran:
Regarding SA, I’m all for holding AMD accountable, but let’s at least get the facts right, and maybe don’t come at it with a history of cheerleading for Nvidia.
geohot got a lot of press and attention by coming out aggressively at AMD during a moment when their software really was weak.
The short-term payoff of that drama created a long-term problem where the only way they could look good was by outrunning the progress of the engineers who were inside the company, well funded, and already familiar with everything. It was an impossible goal from the start but he made it even more impossible by attacking AMD. AMD was smart to basically ignore them and wait for him to give up, as opposed to inviting that drama to crossover in-house or split their user base.
We got the MI300X box on MLPerf too, and every MLPerf from here on general tinygrad improvements should bring down the times. We're still quite focused on AMD.
