Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU
by slavik81 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @09:37PM
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Apple abandoned OpenCL years ago. It's now officially deprecated on macOS. The most recent version they implemented is OpenCL 1.2 (released 2011). For reference, the current version is OpenCL 2.2 (released 2017).
Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU
by bitL on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @08:31AM
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It's both poor software support and poor performance, e.g. Vega 20 has 15TFlops in theory, in practice one could get around 7.5TFlops. And only use models supported by ROCm, custom CUDA kernels used by many models nowadays might not work after cross-compilation to AMD instructions.
Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU
by mdaniel on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:31PM
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because you can't just go buy a TPU for training
but that's what this is, right? https://coral.withgoogle.com/products/
Performance is an issue, but the bigger issue is that your model just won't work.
NVIDIA is really the only game in town right now. Google's TPUs are somewhat of an exception but they only sort of count, because you can't just go buy a TPU for training. Makes TPUs a non-starter for a lot of businesses.
What's interesting is the slow pace of change. 3 years ago we were in the exact same place. I don't see it changing overnight.