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AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

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1045 points mfiguiere | 1 comments | 12 Feb 24 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | source
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fariszr ◴[12 Feb 24 14:33 UTC] No.39345178[source]▶
> after the CUDA back-end was around for years and after dropping OpenCL, Blender did add a Radeon HIP back-end... But the real kicker here is that using ZLUDA + CUDA back-end was slightly faster than the native Radeon HIP backend.

This is absolutely crazy.

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toxik ◴[12 Feb 24 14:56 UTC] No.39345429[source]▶
Is AMD just a puppet org to placate antitrust fears? Why are they like this?
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