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It's only cheating if there exists an alternate compiler that works better on AMD. It may be not-nice for Intel to use this form of "DRM" to lock their high-pe
by gowld 7y ago
It's only cheating if there exists an alternate compiler that works better on AMD.
It may be not-nice for Intel to use this form of "DRM" to lock their high-performance compiler to Intel chips, but they don't owe AMD users a high-performance compiler.
Now, if vendors are shipping pre-compiled software that has the enabled-for-Intel-only fast-paths and don't ofter AMD-optimized versions, those vendors are misbehaving (intentionally or not).
- wjnc 7y agoI agree. It's funny that the lack of attention of AMD to software / drivers (say Blas / MKL, CUDA) is holding the adoption of their silicon back in certain markets even after they've surpassed Intel in performance.
- sliken 7y agoAMD has a compiler (c, c++, fortran) and various math libs: libm for basics, blis/libflame for blas.