Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon
by Dracophoenix on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:04AM
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Is that so? I would have thought MKL and CUDA would have kept AMD from dominating in AI and simulations for at least the next 3-5 years. That is unless you're working supercomputers.
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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon
by fxtentacle on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:37AM
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CUDA yes. I'm using an AMD Ryzen for data pre-processing and then an NVIDIA GPU for the actual AI training. The TensorFlow pre-processing pipeline is heavily optimized for parallelism, so it works perfectly on AMD CPUs with lots of cores.
As for MKL, yes it is impressive for some applications like real-time audio processing, but AFAIK with TensorFlow MKL is only used if you don't use a GPU, so pretty much never.