Unfortunately, AMD and ATI before it have had driver quality issues for decades; and both they and their fans have claimed that they have solved the problems every year since.
Even if they have made progress, I doubt that they have reached parity with Nvidia. I have had enough false hope from them that I am convinced that the only way that they will ever improve their drivers if they let another group write the drivers for them.
Coincidentally, Valve has been developing the Vulkan driver used by SteamOS and other Linux distributions, which is how SteamOS is so much better than Windows. If AMD could get someone else to work on improving their GPGPU support, we would likely see it become quite good too. Until then, I have very low expectations.
Unfortunately, AMD and ATI before it have had driver quality issues for decades; and both they and their fans have claimed that they have solved the problems every year since.
Even if they have made progress, I doubt that they have reached parity with Nvidia. I have had enough false hope from them that I am convinced that the only way that they will ever improve their drivers if they let another group write the drivers for them.
Coincidentally, Valve has been developing the Vulkan driver used by SteamOS and other Linux distributions, which is how SteamOS is so much better than Windows. If AMD could get someone else to work on improving their GPGPU support, we would likely see it become quite good too. Until then, I have very low expectations.
Gaming != HPC
GPUs were originally designed for gaming. Their ability to be used in HPC grew out of that. The history of issues goes back rather far.
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