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It's less that they dropped the ball so much as locked it behind a large gate embossed with a dollar symbol and behind it live compute monsters like the Instinc
by captainbland 4y ago
It's less that they dropped the ball so much as locked it behind a large gate embossed with a dollar symbol and behind it live compute monsters like the Instinct MI2XX line/CDNA2 (and soon their successors!).
But in the consumer space, yeah, Nvidia is a no-brainer if you want GPGPU.
- mardifoufs 4y agoBut trying to use MI2XX compute is so hard even on public clouds. I have tried it for a bit and it always seems to throw some kind of error if you want to run anything more "generic" on it (like say, pytorch) , as opposed to more custom, finely tuned code you'd find on usual HPC.
- slavik81 4y agoI didn't know there was a public cloud with MI200 instances available. Where is that?
- mardifoufs 4y agoOops you're right, it was MI25 instances on azure. Though oddly enough azure has announced Mi200 instances almost a year ago but they still aren't accessible.