Is this the beginning of the end of CUDA dominance?
Not unless intel/AMD/MS/whoever ramps up their software API to the level of efficiency and just-works-edness that cuda provides.
I don’t like nvidia/cuda any more than the next guy, but it’s far and away the best thing going right now. If you have an nvidia card, you can get the best possible AI performance from it with basically zero effort on either windows or linux.
Meanwhile, AMD is either unbearably slow with openCL, or an arduous slog to get rocm working (unless you’re using specific cards on specific linux distros). Intel is limited to openCL at best.
Until some other manufacturer provides something that can legitimately compete with cuda, cuda ain’t going anywhere.
Not unless intel/AMD/MS/whoever ramps up their software API to the level of efficiency and just-works-edness that cuda provides.
I don’t like nvidia/cuda any more than the next guy, but it’s far and away the best thing going right now. If you have an nvidia card, you can get the best possible AI performance from it with basically zero effort on either windows or linux.
Meanwhile, AMD is either unbearably slow with openCL, or an arduous slog to get rocm working (unless you’re using specific cards on specific linux distros). Intel is limited to openCL at best.
Until some other manufacturer provides something that can legitimately compete with cuda, cuda ain’t going anywhere.