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cvadict | 1 year ago
I started playing around with porting some CUDA code to ROCm/HIP on a Ryzen laptop APU I had. While an "unsupported" configuration (which was understood), it all worked until AMD suddenly and explicitly blocked the ability to run on APU's. Currently the only way to get back to work on that project on that particular computer would be to run a closed-source patched driver from some rando on the internet. Needless to say, I lost interest.
Last I checked, there were only 7 consumer SKU's that could run AMD's current compute stack, the oldest being 1 generation old. Even among the enterprise hardware they only support ~2 generations back. So you can't even grab some old cheap recycled gear on e-bay to hack on their ecosystem.
Meanwhile, I can pull anything with an NVIDIA logo on it from a junkyard it'll happily run CUDA code that I wrote for the 8800GTX 15+ years ago.
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