| ▲ | colordrops 2 hours ago | |
Please explain to me why all the major players are buying Nvidia then? Is HIP a drop in replacement? No. You have to port every piece of software you want to use. It's ridiculous to call this a solution. | ||
| ▲ | woctordho 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Major players in China don't play like that. MooreThreads, Lisuan, and many other smaller companies all have their own porting kits, which are basically copied from HIP. They just port every piece of software and it just works. If you want to fight against Nvidia monopoly, then don't just rant, but buy a GPU other than Nvidia and build on it. Check my GitHub and you'll see what I'm doing. | ||
| ▲ | mathisfun123 6 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Is HIP a drop in replacement? No. You don't understand what HIP is - HIP is AMD's runtime API. it resembles CUDA runtime APIs but it's not the same thing and it doesn't need to be - the hard part of porting CUDA isn't the runtime APIs. hipify is the thing that translates both runtime and kernels. Now is hipify a drop-in replacement? No of course but because the two vendors have different architectures. So it's absolutely laughable to imagine that some random could come anywhere near "drop-in replacement" when AMD can't (again: because of fundamental architecture differences). | ||