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FWIW Intel still has an edge over AMD for speciality use cases, I would like to see some benchmarks that use Intel's MKL library to AMD (OpenBLAS).
by ipsum2 7y ago
FWIW Intel still has an edge over AMD for speciality use cases, I would like to see some benchmarks that use Intel's MKL library to AMD (OpenBLAS).
- wickedsickeune 7y agoYou are correct at that, and that's because for over 10 years, especially in academia / HPC / Sci Comp, AMD was non existent. If they get the edge long enough for the HPC community to care, maybe an alternative will be present. Otherwise, if AMD just overpowers intel in hardware / clocks so much, then it might not be an issue. In addition, some specific software (eg Android emulator on Windows) doesn't exist for AMD CPUs.
- makomk 7y agoThe Android emulator can run on AMD CPUs under Windows 10 as of a year or so ago, actually. It now only requires Intel's HAXM on older versions of Windows and I don't think Zen 2 or recent Intel chips officially support those versions of Windows anymore.
- tsoernes 7y agoYou can still use MKL on AMD and it does yield a perf increase over OpenBLAS