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What is it, exactly?

• Athas 7y ago
  More or less AMD CUDA: a collection of compilers, tools, and libraries. The main difference is that NVIDIA markets CUDA strongly based on CUDA C++. You know the way you write CUDA is through nvcc and the language it accepts, unless you turn out to have exotic needs. Instead, AMD just provides a whole bunch of various things with fuzzy documentation, and lets you to pick whatever you like (although I'm not quite sure how you're supposed to know what you like).
  • cwt137 7y ago
    Will this help any on getting acceleration for Tensorflow?
    • Athas 7y ago
      Yes, there is supposedly Tensorflow support in ROCm. I have never used it, so I cannot say how well it works.
      • dannyw 7y ago
        Just don't expect it to be as good as Tensorflow on CUDA.
        • hgoel 7y ago
          What makes you say that? It works perfectly fine and so far I haven't encountered anything I couldn't do with tensorflow-rocm that should be doable with Tensorflow on Nvidia
• imtringued 7y ago
  Well they have decided to put the most important information at the bottom of the readme... https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/tree/roc-3.0.0#rocm-development-toolchains https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/tree/roc-3.0.0#roc... It's a collection of GPU development tools and libraries.