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Limiting the RAM so AI researchers buy Quadro/Titan cards. Just like Canon that downgraded their DSLRs to protect their cinema cameras, NVIDIA will loose share
by arnaudsm 6y ago
Limiting the RAM so AI researchers buy Quadro/Titan cards.
Just like Canon that downgraded their DSLRs to protect their cinema cameras, NVIDIA will loose shares with enthusiasts while AMD (which got solid TF/PyTorch support recently) can finally catch up.
- scottlamb 6y ago> Just like Canon that downgraded their DSLRs to protect their cinema cameras, NVIDIA will loose shares with enthusiasts while AMD (which got solid TF/PyTorch support recently) can finally catch up. Is this for real? As in: I'm thinking about starting to do model training with TensorFlow. I can buy an AMD GPU to use for this and not regret it later?
- arnaudsm 6y agoHere's a tutorial : https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/install-tensorflow-2-for-amd-gpus-87e8d7aeb812 https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/install-tensorflow-2-for... I haven't tested myself, but since I have PTSD from Linux CUDA installations I'm glad competition is finally here.
- dnautics 6y agowhether or not the drivers work for quick demos/benchmarks is not really what I care about with AMD, tbh, their ML pipeline sw QA is bad, historically the major problem was long-term stability. Segfaulting 12 hours into a run is not good for an ML practitioner's sanity.
- 4gotunameagain 6y agoI always thought that the marketing jargon "cannibalize your market" just meant "create a kick ass product" I hate marketing.
- rubatuga 6y agoYou will be happy to know that the RTX 3060 has 12GB of VRAM. I try BERT-Large training on it here: https://www.naut.ca/blog/2021/03/16/rtx-3060-vs-jetson-agx-for-bert-large/ https://www.naut.ca/blog/2021/03/16/rtx-3060-vs-jetson-agx-f...
- fatboy93 6y agoTrue but without comparable offerings like CUDA, it's not really looking bright tbh. Open CL and open vino are years behind virtually speaking with respect to support.