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HPC? NVidia is completely destroying AMD on the deep learning front. The most popular deep learning frameworks use CUDA and do not have stable OpenCL support ou

by gcr 10y ago

HPC? NVidia is completely destroying AMD on the deep learning front. The most popular deep learning frameworks use CUDA and do not have stable OpenCL support out of the box.

bryanlarsen 10y ago
And today AMD announced support for CUDA and hinted that they were deprecating OpenCL (by releasing OpenCL 1.2+ rather than concentrating on 2.0).
- gcp 10y ago
  What? AMD's drivers have had OpenCL 2.0 support for a long time. At least on Windows.
gcp 10y ago
The most popular deep learning frameworks use CUDA and do not have stable OpenCL support out of the box. It's worse than that. The popular frameworks use cuDNN, which is a hand (assembler) optimized library for common operations. AMD does not have any equivalent. Even if you have OpenCL support you'll get nowhere the performance.
- gcr 10y ago
  Most libraries have fallbacks for cuDNN-less operation. Torch, for example, requires you to import a CUDNN library if you want to use it. Caffe requires you to uncomment a line in a makefile if you want to use it.
  - gcp 10y ago
    As already said, you'll get nowhere the performance.