{"id":83713,"date":"2025-04-01T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=18131aa567fae0a281065826a9d48855"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:37:54","slug":"ask-hn-why-hasnt-amd-made-a-viable-cuda-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=83713","title":{"rendered":"Ask HN: Why hasn\u2019t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=43547309\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: It's a surprisingly deep question, there are many answers, and almost all of them are sad.  \nThe whole Brook\/CTM\/Stream generation (which largely predates CUDA) basically getting memory-holed means they lost an entire generation of development and momentum. \nOpenCL being a legitimate standard but an ergonomic nightmare stole some more momentum. \nTheir hardware support being spotty and poorly documented is a serious source of discouragement. \nCUDA already having ecosystem effects (and not having a standard) means making compatible stuff will always be behind and take a performance penalty.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=43547309\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=83713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}