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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by dragandj on Friday September 15, 2017 @09:28AM (#15256951)
As someone who has several top of the line GPUs from 3 years ago that are not even properly supported by ROCm, and someone who invested time in OpenCL 2.0 only to be told by AMD that OpenCL 1.2 is what I'm going to get on ROCm because they don't care, I tend to have a cynical view on this.

I'll just say that there is a reason the projects you linked have only a handful of stars on GitHub, despite having significant headcount and supposed megacorp backing.

People have been burned by AMD so many times that rarely anyone cares any more. I do, but I'm not very optimistic...

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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by Eridrus on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:37AM (#15258001)
Personally, I'm waiting for these projects to get upstreamed, I have no interest in running an AMD fork, and thankfully they seem to be trying to get it upstreamed, but that will also depend on the libraries caring enough.

I think everyone in the deep learning space is interested in AMD succeeding so that we're not all locked into NVIDIA or Google's TPUs, but everyone wants someone else to take the leap first and pay that cost.

I'm certainly not going to buy any AMD GPUs before these versions have been upstreamed and a few people have kicked the tires, the lost productivity just isn't worth it.

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