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Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by CoolGuySteve on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:30AM (#23985889)
Who’s writing bare CUDA though? For most tasks a framework like Tensorflow or PyTorch is good enough.

If AMD could provide a backend for the most popular frameworks then they could skip over the CUDA patent issue completely.

The real problem is that it seems like AMD’s not investing substantially in software teams to make it happen.

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Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by deepGem on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:40AM (#23987885)
In the deep learning world every major framework works on top of Cudnn which works on top of CUDA Pytorch, Tensorflow you name it.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/10657

That is the state of Pytorch support for AMD GPUs.

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Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by jacquesm on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:52AM (#23987293)
> Who’s writing bare CUDA though?

I do. Not everything you can do with a CUDA card is deep learning. In fact that's just one of many applications.

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Re:AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings by shaklee3 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:19AM (#23986308)
Lots of people do. We write cuda all the time.
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