Comments on: AMD-Xilinx and AI Updates at AMD Financial Analyst Day 2022 https://www.servethehome.com/amd-xilinx-ai-updates-at-amd-financial-analyst-day-2022/ Server and Workstation Reviews Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:02:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: emerth https://www.servethehome.com/amd-xilinx-ai-updates-at-amd-financial-analyst-day-2022/#comment-485149 Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:02:49 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61591#comment-485149 Thanks, Patrick. Yes, one stack is key. One stack and the same languages and features on both CDNA and RDNA.

And, not some weasel BS where AMD releases precisely one modest-spec RDNA workstation model that supports HIP, at about 3x the $/FLOP32 of an RX card, and says “SEE!!! YOU CAN TOO DEVELOP ROCm/HIP ON RDNA!!!”

One stack on all RDNA revisions going forward and on CDNA. If AMD does not do this then it may as well take it’s GPUs and go home. You cannot convince mgmt to risk using HIP if the cost of entry is a baseline Mi210 CDNA card with a price tag of thousands of dollars – and the only way to move above above the 210 means going the full OAM Monty. Not when the cost of entry with CUDA is an RTX3050 priced at $300 and it’s PCIe all the way up if you want. It just does not work.

I don’t know about programming FPGAs, but if the same stack can generate binaries that run on them then so much the better.

Well, there’s my rant.

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