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>"Great GPU shortage" places it a bit after COVID hit. >RX570 My condolences. I was lucky enough to get a Vega 64 (Sapphire's) on launch. I'm still using it t
by snvzz 4y ago
>"Great GPU shortage" places it a bit after COVID hit.
>RX570
My condolences. I was lucky enough to get a Vega 64 (Sapphire's) on launch. I'm still using it today. RDNA3, together with new electricity prices, might finally get me to upgrade.
>If it please the court, I just made my own library which is tied to CUDA as well,
HIP is meant to solve that problem. Your library might be auto-convertable. It's pretty much CUDA with everything renamed to HIP. It can then run on both CUDA and ROCm.
- frognumber 4y agoHere's my basic problem. Neither I, nor anyone I work with, want to understand what "Vega 64 (Sapphire)" or any other of this stuff is. I'd just like things to work. I bought a card advertised to work with ROCm, and got 9 months of use from it, which was just about enough to set up a development environment, since most of the real work is in data engineering, dashboarding, etc. I did take the time to understand this when things broke, but that's not really a reasonable expectation. My recollection of this will be: "AMD market tools at the stability and maturity of early prototypes as production-grade code" and "AMD GPUs might stop working in a few months if AMD gets bored." Experiences like this DO burn customers. If AMD had advertised this as being not-quite-ready for prime-time, I would not have felt bad. The gap between advertising, fine-print, and reality was astronomical. You could point me to github issues and say all this was public, but that's not reasonable to expect of someone buying a GPU. If I walk into a store, and walk out with a card labeled for ROCm, then ROCm should work. One of my colleagues bought an ancient NVidia card, during the same shortage. It just works.