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		pjmlp 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the C... Not for me, I was burned twice buying laptops with AMD only to battle with their software, and even the FOSS drivers on GNU/Linux weren't that great versus the Windows experience. While on Windows it has been hit and miss with their SDKs and shader tooling, anyone remembers RenderMonkey? So NVidia it is.

gavinray 9 days ago [–]

Yeah, sorry, I'm in the same boat.

I'm team AMD for CPU (currently waiting for consumer X3D laptops to become reasonably priced).

But for GPU, if only for the "It Just Works" factor, I'm wedded to NVIDIA for the foreseeable future.

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