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It's not even AMD's unwillingness to commit. They were among the first to implement Vulkan and OpenCL, and have a decent legacy of GPU hardware support. Their o
by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not even AMD's unwillingness to commit. They were among the first to implement Vulkan and OpenCL, and have a decent legacy of GPU hardware support. Their open-source kernel drivers on Linux are cream-of-the-crop, and their raster APIs are so good that they truly rival Nvidia.
The biggest issue is frankly that other stakeholders are doing their own thing, and pretending it's okay. Long-term, I think this will be Nvidia's real coup-de-grace; letting local devices do inferencing, while selling their GPUs to larger deployments and training applications. Stuff like CoreML and ROCm are nice, but don't directly threaten CUDA. If their competitors want to be rid of CUDA, then they have to gang up on them and offer a better alternative. Until then, Nvidia will have a market.
It's true what they say, nice guys really do finish last in this economy.