Has anyone built an AI-optimized computer around AMD? Stuff like this? If so, why did you go with AMD given Intel’s AI optimizations like DL-boost? More cores? Lower cost?
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Here’s an interesting comparison. You rely on NVidia for the heavy-lift part in either case, but Intel vs. AMD likely shapes the overall system price/performance. Trying to think about the key variables in the design space here.
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I mean AMD CPUs for the general compute part... I’m assuming Nvidia is the only game in town for the AI part.
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Sadly no one does deep learning with AMD GPUs. ROCm is kind of a joke. I'm hoping vulkan API for compute will pick up with time but right now it's research quality code at best.
Ryzen are great CPUs for CPU heavy tasks though.
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I think I last speced and bought a desktop in 2006. Never built one myself. Considering it as a project this year, and since I’m not a gamer, trying to think of other kinds of workload to solve for. Running deep learning apps at home seems to be an interesting thing to try.
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