Hey, I’m assuming you both were referring to intel arc? I’ve looked into the a770, and with 16 gb of vram and some impressive specs would it be a good option? I’ve heard intel seems to be slightly more active with tools like oneapi than amd is with ROCm.

It looks like 1050 tis go for around $50-$90 which may allow me to get a 4060 ti or a 7700xt. How well does ROCm work with amd cards? Would ROCm work well enough in blender to contest a 4060 ti with cuda? Can existing cuda software be run with ROCm without developers porting it?

I’m new to ROCm and HIP, do you think that they’ll improve over time? Does amd have an existing implementation for any cuda software or must developers port stuff over to ROCm? I ask this because most of my cuda software already runs ok ish on my 1050 ti so if I went amd it may provide reasonable performance with possible ROCm development in the future. Also you mentioned ai/ml and I’d actually really like to give tensorflow a try at some point. At the moment It seems that each gpu has features that are in development (nvk vs ROCm), and whichever I go with it sounds like i’ll be crossing my fingers for each to mature at a reasonable time. At the moment I’m leaning nvida, because if nvk gains traction in a few years, It could provide a good open source alternative to switch to.