Ask HN: Why hasn't AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? by flutetornado on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:00PM (#43549724)

I was able to compile ollama for AMD Radeon 780M GPUs and I use it regularly on my AMD mini-PC which cost me 500$. It does require a bit more work. I get pretty decent performance with LLMs - just making a qualitative statement as I didn't do any formal testing, but I got comparable performance vibes as a NVIDIA 4050 GPU laptop I use as well.

https://github.com/likelovewant/ROCmLibs-for-gfx1103-AMD780M...

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? by vkazanov on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:06PM (#43549769)

Same here on lenovo thinkpad 14s with AMD Ryzen™ AI 7 PRO 360 that has a Radeon 880M iGPU. Works OK on ubuntu.

Not saying it works everywhere but it wasn't even that hard to setup, comparable to cuda.

Hate the name though.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? by Our_Benefactors on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @02:28AM (#43554153)

Nobody will come after you for omitting the tm

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? by vkazanov on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @09:17AM (#43556359)

You never know

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