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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by bryanlarsen on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:48AM (#12949768)
It's silly for AMD to say that nVidia doesn't care about VR. By the same token AMD obviously cares about HPC, even when they say they're "all in" on VR in some press release.

They're both big companies that put lots of effort & money into many things simultaneously.

Not to mention that today is the day that AMD announced public availability of CUDA for their platform.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10831/amd-sc16-rocm-13-release...

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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by gcr on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:51AM (#12950101)
HPC? NVidia is completely destroying AMD on the deep learning front. The most popular deep learning frameworks use CUDA and do not have stable OpenCL support out of the box.
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by gcp on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:51AM (#12950542)
The most popular deep learning frameworks use CUDA and do not have stable OpenCL support out of the box.

It's worse than that. The popular frameworks use cuDNN, which is a hand (assembler) optimized library for common operations. AMD does not have any equivalent. Even if you have OpenCL support you'll get nowhere the performance.

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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by gcr on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:03PM (#12952776)
Most libraries have fallbacks for cuDNN-less operation. Torch, for example, requires you to import a CUDNN library if you want to use it. Caffe requires you to uncomment a line in a makefile if you want to use it.
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by gcp on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:20AM (#12956684)
As already said, you'll get nowhere the performance.
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by bryanlarsen on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:23AM (#12950319)
And today AMD announced support for CUDA and hinted that they were deprecating OpenCL (by releasing OpenCL 1.2+ rather than concentrating on 2.0).
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by gcp on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:47AM (#12950489)
What? AMD's drivers have had OpenCL 2.0 support for a long time. At least on Windows.
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