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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by m-p-3 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:44PM (#24923917)
> CUDA, Tensor Cores, Ansel, etc. I don't really use these things but if I'm paying the same amount I want similar capabilities.

CUDA might be a bit tough. It's hard for an equivalent to catch on if everyone is doing CUDA. It's the chicken-and-egg problem. There's ROCm* if that matters.

*: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by ZekeSulastin on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:07PM (#24924159)
I thought ROCm didn't support RDNA1 as of yet, let alone RDNA2.
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by my123 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:51PM (#24925526)
Yes, it still doesn't... (officially) There is some support that was contributed by the community but it's not complete.
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by black_puppydog on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:53PM (#24925919)
That's too bad. Gonna start a workstation build and even though it's only gonna do deep learning for prototyping, fiddling with low level stuff is just a non-starter compared to just spinning up anaconda env.

Any chance AMD would hire some engineers to upstream rocm support into tensorflow/pytorch?

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by dathinab on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:02PM (#24924108)
Honestly at least for now for the desktop marked it doesn't matter that much.

Software devs might consider it as a factor because they might want to play around with it, but for everyone else is a irrelevant feature.

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by RavlaAlvar on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:32PM (#24926143)
They are 10yrs behind, I doubt they will ever able to catch up.
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by Tom4hawk on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:05PM (#24932648)
People claimed similar things about AMD CPUs and GPUs ;)
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