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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by brcmthrowaway on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:50PM (#47643235)
Isnt mlx a cuda translation later?
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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by ykl on Saturday April 04, 2026 @06:36PM (#47644245)
No, MLX is nothing like a Cuda translation layer at all. It’d be more accurate to describe MLX as a NumPy translation layer; it lets you write high level code dealing with NumPy style arrays and under the hood will use a Metal GPU or CUDA GPU for execution. It doesn’t translate existing CUDA code to run on non-CUDA devices.
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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by superb_dev on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:43PM (#47643772)
My understanding is that MLX is Apple’s CUDA, so a CUDA translation layer would target MLX
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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by ykl on Saturday April 04, 2026 @06:54PM (#47644385)
No, it’s not. MLX is Apple’s NumPy more or less.
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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by wmf on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:43PM (#47643769)
Does tinygrad support MLX?
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