throwawayrgb

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   by throwawayrgb 5mo ago

   yeah it's a very frustrating situation. according to public information NVIDIA started working on CUDA in 2004, that was before AMD made the ATI acquisition. my suspicion is that back then ATI and NVIDIA had very different orientations
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   by throwawayrgb 5mo ago

   > My guess is it’s just incompetence. maybe on some level but not that level you're describing. pretty much everyone at AMD understands the situation, and has for a while.
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   by throwawayrgb 5mo ago

   if you asked AMD execs they'd probably say they never had the money to build out a software team like NVIDIA's. that might only be part of the answer. the rest would be things like lack of vision, "can't turn a tanker on