@newt @beardalaxy @matrix i guess it depends on what the manufacturer considers necessary to get people to buy the cards? for the longest time hardly anyone used video cards on linux for anything, only with CUDA and OpenCL it became a thing for scientific computing and machine learning. i remember cuda being very unstable under windows as well in maybe 2015 or so, every other cycles render used to crash, and when i first switched to amd/opencl i couldn't even get it to render without weird artifacts. since then demand for support has skyrocketed so they fixed their shit, i don't think i have had even one fatal crash with cycles on HIP. basically, gpu compute has moved from being experimental tech demo published for prestige to being an actual feature that sells cards.