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Re:Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference by imtringued on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:25AM (#37075310)
Having a community of people using your product has zero commercial value?

Do you even know how brand recognition works?

The amount of people swearing off of AMD because of bad drivers ten years ago easily cost them a billion dollars. More than the cost of developing a good driver.

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Re:Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference by latchkey on Thursday August 10, 2023 @11:05AM (#37077102)
> Having a community of people using your product has zero commercial value?

Not is not what I'm saying, I'm saying that if I buy up a bunch of rx580 cards, nobody is going to rent them from me.

Now, if I offered a bunch of MI250's on an hourly rate, you can absolutely bet people will rent them all.

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