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It will be fascinating to see if AMD's open source ML platform beats Nvidia's closed one. (Usually, the more open platform becomes more popular.)
by bloopernova 3y ago
It will be fascinating to see if AMD's open source ML platform beats Nvidia's closed one. (Usually, the more open platform becomes more popular.)
- jjn2009 3y agoit should at least provide some better price to performance options once the AMD software/drivers get up to speed.
- fbdab103 3y agoBeen waiting over a decade for AMD to get serious about their software.
- roenxi 3y agoUnlikely; that is almost in no-one's interests. The story down that path is ROCm gets 95% of the way there feature wise, then Nvidia catches a sudden case of community spirit and opens up CUDA. Although that is mostly wishful thinking. I expect ROCm probably works quite well on the server, the issues in my experience is that it assumes that the AMD card is dedicated to processing and once it tries to run graphics and compute at the same time it becomes Too Hard to manage memory for both and then the driver locks up. So their buggy drivers basically kill any sort of hobbyist or researcher effort unless there is a dedicated supercomputer on hand. Much better plan to go with Nvidia I assume.
- pjmlp 3y agoNot really, CUDA and DirectX are more popular than Khronos stuff because of tooling, SDKs and overall developer experience. Simple stuff that matters more for most folks outside FOSS circles. It is up to Intel and AMD to provide similar experiences.