More fuel for the fire...

openCL
you know
that chocolatety spoon my stupid spoon is suppose to support
it just fudgeing doesn't
today I went to use that has openCL support and the box to enable it was grayed out (currently using catalyst 13.1)
I googled the issue and people say they have noticed up to a 49% drop in openCL performance from driver 12.1 to driver 13.1

That would be so bad except apparently for some reason my driver doesn't have the support for it AT ALL (and it's worked in the past so I know this is bullchocolate)


So I went to fix that issue by re-installing my drivers
I used the handy dandy What a fudgeing surprise it's broken and can't even uninstall properly utility
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/P...ility.aspx
Didn't even work
"Completed with warnings" which by the way seems to be a growing trend
so I restarted as it suggested
then ran it again
and the uninstall of everything AMD related
Chipset drivers, AHCI drivers, USB drivers, Graphics drivers, HDMI audio drivers because you can't just fudgeing pick one to uninstall you have to uninstall ALL OF THEM or else something's going to fail somewhere and everything is going to be broken but anyway... that all completed "sucessfully"

So then I restart and navigate the web on my 640x480 "Gaming Machine" (it's a fudgeing powerhouse all right)
download all the drivers I need to "clean reinstall" all of them

and low and fudgeing behold


I think I've seen this message EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME for the last like I don't know SEVEN "updates" to their drivers


but don't worry because if you wanted to know what was wrong and even attempt to fix


that's right
FUCK YOU


So here's to you AMD
FUCK YOU

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(09/03/2013 05:31 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Their APUs are HUGE.  It's the reason they got selected, over Intel, nVidia and IBM for both the PS4 and Xbox 720.
Intel have been focusing so much on their graphics for the past few generations (from Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and the upcomming Haswell) because APUs are where it's at.
APUs also allow them some potential foothold into the embedded SoC market (which is massive), although Intel have been heavily investing there too.

As a person who could care less about consoles,
you know, one of those people who liked them (and supported them with my albeit measly contributions (probably around 2k USD)) when they use to do computer stuff
you know, stuff I actually cared about
I couldn't really care what they do in the console market
that doesn't help me

Meanwhile the NVIDIA Titan the world's best slimest profile graphics card
2nd best newest graphics card (2nd only to NVIDIAs other products and arguably better because sits in one PCI-E slot and it's arguably better because it only takes one PCI-E slot and is more efficient when chained together)
And where does AMD sit?
Spot 4
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

The fourth best graphics card
Aww yeah the HD7970 I think I was pumped and excited for this to come out 2 YEARS AGO No lie... I built my PC probably this month of 2011 and I was excited for the HD7970 but it wasn't out yet, So I didn't get one


Where does AMD sit on the CPU list? Spot 18
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html


I just want to walk up to the CEO of AMD look him dead in the face and scream
"WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN DOING FOR 2 WHOLE YEARS?"

(09/03/2013 05:31 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Nonetheless, what actually uses CUDA that you care about?

Adobe supports CUDA
specifically Adobe Premier Pro
I hope you didn't want to edit/render HD video on AMD/ATI technology because YOU Can't
also various CAD software supports CUDA
Photoshop
Various other Art Programs

I've yet to find something I actually do (aside from the duplicate music file finder "Similarity" which was probably written by some third party single developer enthusiast) that supports openCL
I'm not computing PI to the billionth digit, I'm an avid gamer trying to use my PC for things normal people would use their CPU for
So why is AMD, you know "Gaming Evolved", the people who are suppose to be appealing to me (my demographic) supporting some retarded piece of spoon software implementation that no average PC company seems to give a fudge about
And last time I checked people weren't even using openCL to build super computers they were using NVIDIA Teslas that were CUDA enabled
So what the fudge good is it

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And I know it might seem like I'm just bitching, which I am
But this all basically to say that I'm never buying a single AMD product again
I'm going to buy NVIDIA and Intel products in the future (i.e. as soon as I have the money) but for now, I'm stuck with this chocolatety AMD platform and I'm mad about it...
I don't think a day goes by where I don't feel like chucking these retarded graphics cards out the window...
and if I had the money right now, I'd buy 2 GTX 680's in a heart beat