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Re:Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship gra... by jackyinger on Sunday July 30, 2017 @07:07PM (#14888357)
This is the reason, Nvidia is good for floating point. Which is why people use them for deep learning.
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Re:Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship gra... by mamp on Sunday July 30, 2017 @11:00PM (#14889201)
The main reason is library support. Still no widely supported (or ported) equivalent to Cuda/CuDNN for AMD.
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