• Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      “AMD decided this year to discontinue funding the effort and not release it as any software product”.

      So AMD decided that it wasn’t worthwhile and so the developer released it on his own. AMDs decisions are just baffling. You still can’t even install Pytorch for rocm on Windows.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        So AMD decided that it wasn’t worthwhile and so the developer released it on his own. AMDs decisions are just baffling.

        AMD may have done this to avoid legal entanglements. It allows the solution to exist without a full endorsement from AMD and also lets the open source community drive it to where it needs to be as far as features and functionality.

  • rhebucks-zh@incremental.social
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    9 months ago

    AMD now has the secret sauce. Now they need an architecture with proper dual-issue, and even a backport of the CUs onto RDNA3 structures for the RDNA4 lineup would be good, or 2025 RDNA5 would also be good.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This is a big deal as it kills one of the major vendor lock-ins nVidia has. Gives people much more choice in the products they can buy to achieve their tasks.