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by dharma1 3726 days ago
It doesn't look like AMD's HIP effort compiles to OpenCL, but to C++, that works on specific AMD GPUs (Fiji R9 Fury X, R9 Fury, R9 Nano).

Also, much of the speed gains for ML on NVidia hardware come from CuDNN - there is no equivalent for OpenCL or AMD hardware