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by sangnoir 582 days ago
CUDA is the assembly to Torch's high-level language; for most, it's a very good intermediary, but an intermediary nonetheless, as it is between the actual code they are interested in, and the hardware that runs it.

Most customers care about cost-effectiveness more than best-in-class raw-performance, a fact that AMD has ruthlessly exploited over the past 8 years. It helps that AMD products are occasionally both.

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CUDA is much more than that, and missing that out is exactly why NVidia keeps winning.
Again, I have AMD hardware and can't use it.
AMD is to blame for where they stand.