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.
Re:Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips
by shmerl on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:54PM
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Nvidia should provide Vulkan extensions to access those I suppose. So they should still be accessible. There is some plan to converge Vulkan and OpenCL into one coherent combination.
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.