At the current state of things, AMD is definitely not a viable route, but that might change in the future with the "Boltzmann Initiative" [1]. Performance with

At the current state of things, AMD is definitely not a viable route, but that might change in the future with the "Boltzmann Initiative" [1]. Performance with OpenCL is not comparable with CUDA on NVIDIA GPUs at the moment, and support is lacking in most deep learning frameworks. [1] http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/boltzmann-initiative-2015nov16.aspx http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/boltzmann-init...