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?
exxactcorp.com/AMD-Ryzen-Deep
Conversation
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.
1
3
I mean AMD CPUs for the general compute part... I’m assuming Nvidia is the only game in town for the AI part.
Quote Tweet
Replying to @vgr
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.
2
1
3
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.
3
6
Replying to
running deep learning apps at home is highly addictive. but it will keep your closet warm
1
2
Replying to
I've made things with GPT-2, styleGAN, Wav2Lip, spleeter, voice cloning, all kinds of stuff. pytorch stack mostly.
i use a MSI gaming laptop with an RTX 2070. looking back though, a desktop would have been a much better choice. I just wanted to skip the build process 😉
1
1
2
Replying to
I'll probably sell it and build something bigger. let you do the research and I'll just copy yours hey
1


