BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

Re:BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs by colordrops on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:29AM (#47057524)

Please. If HIP worked so well they would be eating into Nvidia's market share.

First, it's a porting kit, not a compatibility layer, so you can't run arbitrary CUDA apps on AMD GPUs. Second, it only runs on some of their GPUs.

This absolutely does not solve the problem.

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Re:BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs by KennyBlanken on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @02:52AM (#47058421)

HIP is just one of many examples of how utterly incompetent AMD is at software development.

GPU drivers, Adrenalin, Windows chipset drivers...

How many generations into the Ryzen platform are they, and they still can't get USB to work properly all the time?

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Re:BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs by formerly_proven on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:06AM (#47059338)

AMD doesn't do USB, they source the controller IP from ASMedia, who also developed most of their chipsets.

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Re:BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs by dripdry45 on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:37PM (#47067929)

Yeah but AMD could absolutely work on a joint venture to get something like moving along solidly.

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