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No I don’t want ROCm I want GPGPU, which is why the entire planet is running CUDA. Every decision AMD made with ROCm seems to boil down too “i never want to be
by dogma1138 6y ago
No I don’t want ROCm I want GPGPU, which is why the entire planet is running CUDA.
Every decision AMD made with ROCm seems to boil down too “i never want to be actually competitive with CUDA”.
Everything from being Linux only and yes that’s is a huge huge huge limitation because most people don’t want ROCm but many would like Photoshop or Premier or Blender being able to use it.
Especially with the OpenCL issues AMD has....
Through them not supporting their own hardware to other mind boggling decisions like the fact that ROCm binaries are hardware specific so you have no guarantee of interoperability and worse no guarantee for future compatibility and in fact it does break.
The point is that I can take a 6 years old CUDA binary and run it today still on everything form an embedded system through a high end server, it would maintain its compatibility across multiple generations of GPU hardware, multi operating systems and multiple CPU architectures.
And if you can’t understand why that is not only valuable but more or less mandatory for every GPGPU application you would ever ship to customers, perhaps you should stick to photoshop.
AMD is a joke in this space and they are very much actively continuing in making themselves one with every decision they make.
It’s not that they’ve abandoned ROCm is that it’s entire existence is telegraphing “Don't take use seriously, because we don’t”.