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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 | 3 comments | 12 Feb 24 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.789s | source
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Keyframe ◴[12 Feb 24 16:45 UTC] No.39347045[source]▶
This event of release is however a result of AMD stopped funding it per "After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs. One of the terms of my contract with AMD was that if AMD did not find it fit for further development, I could release it. Which brings us to today." from https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq

so, same mistake intel made before.

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tgsovlerkhgsel ◴[12 Feb 24 22:44 UTC] No.39351568[source]▶
How is this not priority #1 for them, with NVIDIA stock shooting to the moon because everyone does machine learning using CUDA-centric tools?

If AMD could get 90% of the CUDA ML stuff to seamlessly run on AMD hardware, and could provide hardware at a competitive cost-per-performance (which I assume they probably could since NVIDIA must have an insane profit margin on their GPUs), wouldn't that be the opportunity to eat NVIDIA's lunch?

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1. llm_trw ◴[12 Feb 24 23:36 UTC] No.39352131[source]▶
Never underestimate AMD's ability to fail.

Ryzen was a surprise to everyone not because it was good, but because they didn't fuck it up within two generations.

AMD cards have more raw compute than nvidia, they are better than nvidia, yet the software is so bad that I gave up on using it and switched to nvidia. Two weeks of debugging driver errors vs 30 minutes of automated updates.

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2. tormeh ◴[13 Feb 24 01:27 UTC] No.39353165[source]▶
It's rather shocking that with RADV, Valve (mostly) has written a better RDNA2 driver than AMD has managed for their own cards. Besides the embarrassment, AMD is leaving tons of performance and therefore market share on the table. You have to wonder wtf is going on over at AMD.
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3. dralley ◴[13 Feb 24 01:52 UTC] No.39353346[source]▶
RADV was started by David Arlie of Red Hat, although Valve been dedicating some very significant resources over the past few years.