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by SV_BubbleTime 462 days ago
AMD’s is coming up in support for things like torch and xformers. But it isn’t there yet.

If you want for AI, your best bet is a used 3090 for $700-800. The ram is more important and that card is still faster than a 4070.
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codedokode 462 days ago
AMD has documentation for its assembly language as I remember. Or one needs more documentation to run AI?
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SV_BubbleTime 462 days ago
Isn’t a documentation issue.

The entire ecosystem is built around CUDA currently. There was someone implementing Cuda on AMD hardware but as I understand it, AMD shut that down.

There are two alternatives to CUDA for AMD right now, but I forget their names.

AMD has STRIX coming, which is a single board embedded ram machine, and is being targeted at AI loads with lots of low latency ram. So we’ll see what happens there.

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