OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model

Re:OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified ... by shmerl on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:22PM (#26311212)

I don't see Nvidia leading in raw compute power, both in GPGPU and in gaming. At most there will be parity going forward. Which will prompt Nvidia to double down on lock-ins like CUDA.

Either way, CUDA should be gone for good and replaced with something that's not tied to specific GPU. I welcome competition in hardware. I have no respect for lock-in shenanigans.

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Re:OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified ... by oivey on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:21PM (#26311547)

They’re leading right now by a bit, and when it comes to workloads involving tensor cores or ray tracing they’re burying AMD.

I wish CUDA wasn’t vendor locked, too, but AMD and Intel need to start taking GPGPU software seriously. They’ve dug themselves a massive hole at this point.

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Re:OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified ... by shmerl on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:04PM (#26311795)

I don't see a need to whitewash Nvidia here. They are nasty lock-in proponents. That doesn't mean AMD and Intel shouldn't invest more in improving the software side of things. Which I think they are doing (like the actual post example), so it should be getting better.

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