Paywalled.
What is this about anyway ?
Edit : Wow ! Great answers and nice project. Always good to see competition against Nvidia.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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I was able to read without subscription or paywall. This is about AMD writing software that is open source and competes directly with Nvidia’s CUDA software framework.
Unable to read the paywalled article, but ROCm is like Nvidia's CUDA for their GOUs. These used to be supported on and off for consumer GPUs, but get aupported mostly only for datacenter ones. Linux used to be supported, but they are bringing ROCm to windows as well.
Probably AMD is planning to improve support for consumer GPUs, since their GPUs are competitive to Nvidia's at a lower price point, given that local LLMs, Image generation and other AIs are in a kind of a booming trend.
Currently, Nvidia has CUDA which is more or less the industry standard, so AMD with their ROCm and Intel with their OpenVino etc are trying to chip away at the monopoly.
weird, it isn't for me. it is about AMDs equivalent of nVidias CUDA. AMD is trying to catch up in the area that they have unfortunately neglected for a very long time and in which nVidia has an (almost) unassailable lead. That means making things like machine learning / AI on their GPUs possible, or more easily and on more cards (especially more consumer cards) available.
Good. For my last GPU is was forced to go with Nvidia since I needed CUDA. ROCm was useless for consumer GPU's back then. Support has gotten better since from what I've seen, so hopefully they continue and my next GPU will be team red again.
It's only a matter of time. Just like physx and any other Nvidia gimmick, AMD will catch up and offer it for a fraction of the price.
Finally
Right! My thought was “fucking better be!” AMD lagging behind on general purpose compute is super disappointing.
That's about time.
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They should just let this mess quietly die and join Intel with their attempt at a cross-vendor standard.