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          13 days ago

          AMD has been lying about that every year since 2019.

          Last time I checked it didn’t. And it probably still doesn’t.

          People aren’t buying NVIDIA if AMD would work too. The VRAM prices NVIDIA asks are outrageous.

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              12 days ago

              Can you train on it too? I tried Pytorch on AMD once and it was awful. They promised mountains but delivered nothing. Newer activation functions were all broken.

              llama.cpp is inference only, for which AMD works great too after converting to ONNX. But training was awful on AMD in the past.

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        CUDA is not equivalent to AI training. Nvida offers useful developer tools for using their hardware, but you don’t have to use them. You can train on any GPU or even CPU. The projects you’ve looked at (?) just chose to use CUDA because it was the best fit for what hardware they had on hand, and were able to tolerate the vendor lock-in.

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            I’m not saying you can deploy these in place of Nvidia cards where the tooling is built with Nvidia in mind. I’m saying that if you’re writing code you can do machine learning projects without CUDA, including training.

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              For sure you can work around it. But it’s not optimal and requires additional work most people don’t feel like putting in.