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by lbhdc 1119 days ago
He mentioned ROCm, and apparently had lack luster experience with it.

>The software is called ROCm, it’s open source, and supposedly it works with PyTorch. Though I’ve tried 3 times in the last couple years to build it, and every time it didn’t build out of the box, I struggled to fix it, got it built, and it either segfaulted or returned the wrong answer. In comparison, I have probably built CUDA PyTorch 10 times and never had a single issue.
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tzhenghao 1119 days ago
Not surprising lol. This was also the experience I had while experimenting with MLIR approximately 3 years ago. You'd need to git checkout a very specific commit and then even change some flags in code to have a successful build. I'm sure things are better now but I haven't messed with it since then.
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radq 1119 days ago
> I'm sure things are better now but I haven't messed with it since then.

I had the same experience ~3 months ago. Gave up and switched to Nvidia 3090s for my workloads.

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ipsum2 1119 days ago
It's because ROCm is not developed for RDNA (consumer) cards, but CDNA (datacenter) cards. No surprise that he's having trouble with it.
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