“Making science accessible to everyone is important to us. That's one of the reasons why GeForce cards can run CUDA.” — Bryce Lelbach at Nvidia

AMD meanwhile considers GPU compute as a premium feature... which is a different approach.

Not having a shippable IR like PTX but explicitly targeting a given GPU ISA, making this unshippable outside of HPC and supporting Linux only also points in that direction.

Intel will end up being a much better option than AMD for GPU compute once they ship dGPUs... in their first gen.

Especially since more and more consumer workloads use compute as well. DLSS makes real time ray tracing at acceptable resolutions possible, your phone camera uses neural nets for every photo you take, Nvidias OptiX noise reduction is very impressive, and so on.

AMD doesn't seem to want to be part of future computer usages, it's a shame. "Armies prepare to fight their last war, rather than their next war".