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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by ansible on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:01PM (#14098962)
There's really no reason AMD themselves couldn't hire 5 developers to integrate with TensorFlow.

The problem is that it isn't just TensorFlow. It is also Caffe, Theano, Torch, etc., etc., etc.. For deep learning, Nvidia GPU acceleration is almost a given.

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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by lettergram on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:31PM (#14099259)
If AMD can write an abstraction layer similar to CuDNN, and write the initial integration to TensorFlow and Caffee I think they'd gain enough community support to finish out the rest.

80% of deep learning users use the TensorFlow, Caffe, or Torch frameworks.

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