What are you independently running? What are the limitations of your setup in practice, and what level of hardware is really needed in your opinion?
I’m disabled and need at laptop, - for reasons. Looking seriously at System76 options under $3k, so 6-8gbv RTX 4050 or 4060. I want to integrate SD into a Blender CAD workflow. Is this practical?
AMD doesn’t sell any suitable consumer cards for SD though and ROCm support is limited to their datacenter GPUs. It can be made to work with consumer GPUs but it is really hit or miss and they drop compatibility with cards barely a few years old.
Intel is working on an open-source CUDA equivalent called oneAPI that works with all major vendors and from what I have heard it is already working better for many things than ROCm.