7900xtx

> Looking at his recent track record[1] One might argue he's had a pattern for even longer. While he did do some early hypervisor glitching, even his PS3 root key release was basically just applying fail0verflow's ECDSA exploit (fail0verflow didn't release the keys specifically because they didn't want to get sued ... so that was a pretty dick move [1]). For his projects, I think it's important to look at what he's done that's cool (eg, reversing 7900XTX [2], creating a user-space driver that completely bypasses AMD drivers for compute [3]) and separating it from his (super cringe) social media postings/self-hype. Still, at the end of the day, here's hoping that someone at AMD realizes that having terrible consumer and workstation support will basically continue to be a huge albatross/handicap - it cuts them off basically all academic/res

Some of the work from Tinycorp is: https://github.com/tinygrad/7900xtx

Pros: Relatively low price - The 7900XT is more competitively priced compared to equivalent NVIDIA GPUs. Good 4K gaming performance - For games at 4K resolution, the 7900XT can provide satisfactory performance. George Hotz's tinybox project offers both 6x 7900XTX and 6x 4090, indicating that the 7900XT may have promising applications in certain computational fields. Open-Source - ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) is open-source, while NVIDIA's official drivers are not. We should support open-source initiatives. Cons: Less mature software ecosystem - Getting research programs to run on the 7900XT may require substantial debugging and optimization work. Higher power consumption - Compared to NVIDIA products of the same tier, the 7900XT generally has higher power consumption. Driver stability issues - AMD GPU d

>> I see no indications either that either nvidia nor any of the rest of the manufacturers has moved any respectable amount of functionality to the firmware. Someone who believes this could easily prove that they are correct by "simply" taking their 4090 and documenting all its functionality, as was done with the [7900 xtx](https://github.com/geohot/7900xtx). You can't say "I see no indications/evidence" unless you have proven that there is no evidence, no?

I am guessing this is because of George Hotz? If so, the article could do with a little backstory. See, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39888020 https://github.com/geohot/7900xtx

> I do love AMD because its drivers are open source as opposed to nVidia. AMD's drivers are not really more open that Nvidia's. Similar to Nvidia's Open GPU Kernel Module's[0], AMD's opensource drivers are mostly a shim that wrap firmware blobs[1] in which the functionality you really care about is contained. [0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/discussion... [1] https://github.com/geohot/7900xtx/