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Ah I see. But wouldn't that mean that hardware-wise, consumer grade AMD stuff is better than for GPGPU, than consumer grade NVIDIA stuff? With the exception of
by torginus 5y ago
Ah I see. But wouldn't that mean that hardware-wise, consumer grade AMD stuff is better than for GPGPU, than consumer grade NVIDIA stuff? With the exception of AI and software support, of course.
- qayxc 5y agoThe previous generations of AMD hardware were super popular among crypto miners for that reason. Most other software focused exclusively on CUDA, so GPGPU on AMD cards is not well supported despite the potential. Blender is a popular example for this. After discontinuing cross-vendor OpenCL support, which effectively limited GPU acceleration to NVIDIA cards, they added support for AMD cards in the latest version. Even then, only the latest generation of AMD cards is supported for some reason. Other renderers like OctaneRender still only support CUDA. The situation is just as bleak in video editing software, were major companies like Adobe only support NVIDA and Intel (at least on Windows) or have poor OpenCL support (which users then blame on AMD of course). There is some hope that software support for GPGPU without CUDA (maybe using Vulkan Compute?) will improve later this year with Intel (re-)entering the discrete desktop GPU market.