Re:Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips
by shmerl on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:07PM
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They can ditch CUDA, and start using AMD in addition. It's still not a huge increase in choice, but better than one.
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Re:Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips
by twtw on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:47PM
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Ditching CUDA would mean accepting at least 10-30% performance hit on NVIDIA cards and losing the ability to use the newest NVIDIA improvements. OpenCL doesn't know about HMMA (aka "Tensor Cores"), so it would be about an order of magnitude slower for DL on Volta.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find people willing trade significant performance for the option of running applications on AMD's less power efficient processors.