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Will AMD be able to make cuda interface of their own?
by jadbox 3y ago
Will AMD be able to make cuda interface of their own?
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoThey have their own alternatives to CUDA & cuDNN called ROCm & MiOpen, as well as tools (HIP, HIPify) that let you write code that'll run on both NVIDIA/CUDA and AMD cards. There are also AMD versions of PyTorch and TensorFlow. The problem is that all of these efforts are not quite 100% there ... there are bugs and incompatibilities that seem to make most people abandon them. It's a shame since the hardware itself seems great.
- dharma1 3y agoFeels like this (and the drivers, as recently rediscovered by geohot) should be their #1 priority to be frank. Or should have been for the last few years but better late than never. The most bang for buck they could do to improve their competitiveness (and share price)
- nicolaslem 3y agoAnother big issue is that AMD does not officially support their CUDA alternative on consumer hardware. Finding a list of supported GPUs is basically impossible so I am not surprised nobody bothers adding ROCm/HIP support to their software. That is a stark contrast to Nvidia where everything works on even the most entry level GPU, encouraging adoption in third-party software.
- mdaniel 3y agorelevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175 ("The tiny corp raised $5.1M") and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36189705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36189705 ("Geohot/Tinycorp gives up on AMD")