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by Athas 1047 days ago
For which applications are AMD GPUs more suited? Last I looked at the available chips, AMD sometimes had higher FLOPS or memory throughput (and generally lower cost), but I don't recall any qualitative advantages. In contrast, just to pick something I care about, NVIDIAs memory and synchronisation model allows operations like prefix sums to be significantly more efficient.
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They may have had an edge on 64-bit performance, which is pretty much useless for deep learning, but can be useful e.g. physics simulations or other natural science applications.
> but I don't recall any qualitative advantages

Like... how you feel when you use them? (-:

Oh definitely, there's a reason my home GPU is an AMD! The fact that driver troubles are (sort of) a thing of the past is a great win.