[jdietrich]

AMD's performance deficit is about to get a lot worse. Nvidia's upcoming Volta architecture is massively optimised for deep learning - they're touting a 12x performance increase for training and 6x for inferencing over Pascal.

I think Intel have a better chance of catching up with Nvidia at this stage. They've been on an acquisition spree and have picked up a huge amount of DL-related IP. They have immense R&D and fab resources at their disposal.

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-volta-tesla-v100-gpu-compute-ben...

[dragontamer]

That's only if you use Volta's Tensor cores however.

AMD's 16-bit packed performance with Vega is more than respectable vs NVidia's 16-bit packed performance in Pascal.

In the future, all AMD needs to catch up to Volta's Tensor cores is to build Tensor cores themselves. That doesn't seem like a major technical hurdle. I'm fairly certain that Google would be the primary patent holder on Tensor-cores.