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Hi, let me just say that I actually managed to get Katago running on Win 10 with 5700 XT seemingly without a hitch or any special steps. Runs fast, plays strong. (Note that I am not doing any neural-net training so far, just using the existing weights.)

AMD has patched the bug on Windows with ...

@Drew: what was your reason for buying an AMD Radeon card?

It's a fair question. The computer in question was built to maximize gaming performance value, and in that respect the 5700XT was an excellent choice. A performance-equivalent nVidia card would have been almost 2x the cost. It just ...

I don't have anything to add other than an indirect comment that I think this forum would benefit from a Quarterly or Semi-Annual "State of the Bots" post that sums up where the industry is at in terms of software, hardware, functionality, and how-to's.

For people who can't keep up with the daily ...

Update for those of you out there like me with this card: today I heard from an AMD development rep that the fix has been ported to the mainline/release build and it is expected to be released soon.

Almost one year after release, there's light at the end of the tunnel...

I haven't been on GoPanda2 in a long time because it lacked 4k support and after upgrading my desktop and laptop I could barely read the UI.

Turns out on 2019-10-16 they quietly released a new Linux client that has full 4k support, at least on Ubuntu.

If this has been holding you back, try the new ...

Some very minor good news: AMD's most recent Radeon driver release notes ( link ) includes the following under Known Issues :

SETI@Home may be provided incorrect results from Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.

SETI@Home suffers from the same problem all the Go software does - bogus ...

Yes, looks great!

That's a neat tool. Thank you for sharing.

To translate:
( 御箸 o-hashi ; お寿司 o-sushi , おにぎり o-nigiri ) as
( most honorable chopticks, most honorable sushi, most honorable rice ball )
seems a bit overkilled to me. :)
Well I'll be... 4 years of Japanese way back when in school and I never bothered to learn (or have long since forgotten) the ...

Anyone translate the characters on the box lid for me?

The lid reads 博御碁盤.

碁盤 is "go board" -- ごばん -- "goban".

博御 seems to be a name - perhaps "Hiroshi" - as those two characters together do not appear in any Japanese dictionary I have access to.

In any case, your board is Japanese.

explo, you must understand that we're in the ComputerGo section of 19x19. Any GPU discussion by default is regarding Go software performance.

I built this PC for Adobe-based photo and video editing, gaming, and Go. It performs the first two tasks admirably well.

As far as I know, the RX 5700 XT are good cards but there has been a lot of drivers issues. I've heard less complain about it lately. Are your drivers up to date?

My drivers ...

Thank you for the insightful comments, everyone. I will do my best to take them to heart.

EDIT - pro drivers released by AMD on 2020-09-29 work under Ubuntu.

I'm writing this post with the dual goals of warning other potential buyers and perhaps receiving some helpful feedback.

In short, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is absolutely useless for Go analysis as of November 2019.

In Windows 10 ...