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Re:BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs by hackyhacky on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:33PM (#47055002)
Honestly I'm not sure how good is LLVM's support for AMD GX11 machine code. It's a pretty niche backend. Even if it exists, it may not produce ideal output. And it's a huge dependency.
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Re:BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs by bri3d on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:03PM (#47056172)
Quite good, it’s first party supported by AMD (ROCm LLVM, with a lot upstreamed as well) where it’s fairly widely used in production.

This project is a super cool hobby/toy project but ZLUDA is the “right” drop in CUDA replacement for almost any practical use case.

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Re:BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs by woctordho on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:33PM (#47069950)
I'd say it's pretty good on supported GPUs (gfx 9 and 12). Things like hipcc and Triton all work on top of it. But on gfx 11 there is still a lot to optimize.
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