trostaft

This project has been unmaintained for a while.

Both Intel and AMD have the opportunity to create some actual competition for NVIDIA in the GPGPU space. Intel, at least, I can forgive since they only just entered the market. Why AMD has struggled so hard to get anything going for so long, I don't know...

moooo99
AMD has made several attempts, their most recent effort apparently is the ROCm [0] software platform. There is an official PyTorch distro for Linux that supports ROCm [1] for acceleration. There's also frameworks like tinygrad [2] that (claim) support for all sorts of accelerators. Thats as far as the claims go, I don't know how it handles the real world. If the occasional George Hotz livestream (creator of TinyGrad) is anything to go by, AMD has to rule out a lot of driver issues to be any actual competition for team green.

I really hope AMD manages a comeback like they showed a few years ago with their CPUs. Intel joining the market is certainly helping, but having three big players competing would certainly be desirable for all sorts of applications that require GPUs. AMD cars like the 7900 XTX are already fairly promising on paper with fairly big VRAMs, they'd probably be much more cost effective than NVIDIA cards if software support was anywhere near comparable.

[0]: https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/servers-solutions-rocm

[1]: https://pytorch.org/

[2]: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad