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Thanks for reporting on that! It's honestly rare to hear anyone using one, so real-world info is sparse haha. I was seriously considering an RTX 7900 series, but skipped it because of reading a few scattered experiences like yours. Maybe someday I'll switch to Linux haha.

Man, that's.... awful pricing and bizarre. Best of luck finding something sanely priced!

Unless they're about the Qudelix 5k(can't find this in Brasil for a reasonable price)

Bummer! How much does it cost there?

I was also considering the Fiio before I got a Qudelix (which I love). A colleague has the Fiio and is quite happy with it, for what it's worth. I think either Fiio is a safe purchase.

This is the what I'm aware of for ROCm: AMD: Partial RDNA 3 Video Card Support Coming to Future ROCm Releases. TL;DR is that it's still not clearly committed with a date, and consumer GPU support is pretty weak.

There's DirectML, which is what SD.Next (Vlad Diffusion) and some others use in Windows. I think it works OK, but can be slow, and it seemed to have a lot of bugs and limited support from perusing the issues lists (though I could be wrong there). I haven't tried it, so others may know better. For perspective, I analyzed the public Vladmandic SD benchmark data and saw 0 7900 XT(X) results using Windows. It seems like almost nobody uses windows + AMD.

Thanks for sharing this!

I guess what I meant to say was I wish it had a population breakdown (as in total percentages, not percent changes) to see how it has impacted Portland's demographics. As you say, Portland is very white, and I was curious to see how this has changed (without doing math or much digging because I was on mobile yesterday). I was also thinking it would be interesting to compare PDX to the broader U.S. population to see if Portland is uniquely experiencing rapid growth in (e.g.) Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander community, or if that's a broader trend in the US.

As luck would have it, I'm not on mobile today, so I found the 2nd info from Axios (conveniently formatted in the same way: https://www.axios.com/2023/06/29/fastest-growing-demographics

Comparing PDX to the US at large, it looks like there was a significant influx of Hispanic and Native Hawaiian & other Pacific Islander people, and a bigger growth in Asian and Black groups vs. the US at large as well. I really wonder what Portland's demographics will look like in 10 years, and if it'll be meaningfully less white (it seems so). I'm not sure what's driving the huge growth in Native Hawaiian & other Pacific Islander populations (I'm ignorant there) and would be curious to understand that.

I've been going to Junior's a lot for beans lately; I think they're pretty great.

Agreed; Momiji tends to be pretty solid in my experience. I've eaten at a couple of them and their price/quality is a great balance for my taste. The one on Fremont is good, too. I haven't been to the Barbur one.

Thanks for sharing! It'd be interesting if the article had compared this to nationwide trends and/or showed the current vs. past breakdowns.

I think there are tearable sides on some.

Is anyone running SD on AMD GPUs in Windows? The AMD benches seem to all be from Linux because of ROCm, presumably, but I'd be curious to know how much performance loss comes from using DirectML on, say, a 7900XT in Windows.

It kind of lends it a "steam on water" vibe, which works pretty well for me