[HN Gopher] AMD ROCm: A Wasted Opportunity
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       AMD ROCm: A Wasted Opportunity
        
       Author : mariuz
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-02-17 09:29 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | jacooper wrote:
       | ROCm is the reason why if you want to even bother with AI, you
       | just need to buy an nvidia GPU.
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       | Amd's crappy support and absolutely ridiculous support list makes
       | it absolutely useless.
        
       | juliangoldsmith wrote:
       | What about Mesa for OpenCL? Its support for AMD cards is pretty
       | good in my (limited) experience.
       | 
       | The codegen stuff is all shared (formerly Gallium, now
       | llvmpipe?), so Mesa's implementation of OCL should be great.
        
       | nicolaslem wrote:
       | Since very recently Arch community packages ROCm. At least it
       | makes it a bit easier to try for yourself without having to jump
       | through too many hoops.
       | 
       | https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/rocm-opencl-...
        
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