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by make3 2654 days ago
Tensorflow support on AMD is supposedly not awful anymore. https://medium.com/tensorflow/amd-rocm-gpu-support-for-tenso...

I wish someone who had >actual< practical experience in the domain would comment.

It's an important question.

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I haven't personally tried to do anything on an AMD GPU, but AMD actually has a very active GitHub repository https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/tensorflow-upstream .

If you go through the issues you can get a sense of what it's like from people who do have practical experience.

this is like bad selection bias though. people never write issues to say things are going well. the general Tensorflow issues are also about only bad things, by definition
I've been following ROCm development closely, and everything I read is pointing towards it being a first class competitor to CUDA.

That being said, I don't have any personal experience because, well, I don't have AMD GPUs to play around with.