• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Can someone please explain like I’m five what the meaning and impact of this will be? Past posts and comments don’t seem to be very clear. As someone who uses both Linux and macOS professionally for design, this could be a massive game changer for me.

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      9 months ago

      If you already have a cuda workflow and want to use an AMD card, you can do that with this library.

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        9 months ago

        That includes stuff like Stable Diffusion that recommended nvidia cards because it uses CUDA to accelerate image generation?

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        9 months ago

        So does it work with off the shelf software or is it something the developer has the patch in?

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          9 months ago

          So does it work with off the shelf software or is it something the developer has the patch in?

          The point of a drop-in replacement is that no patching is required but in reality the software was released in incomplete form.

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        9 months ago

        ok, I get that much. what I’d like to know, if you’re willing to explain: what’s it going to be like deploying that on, say, a Mac workstation? a pop_os workstation? (edit: such as: how, can I on macOS, will I work with after effects, etc.)

        thanks for your time

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      CUDA is when a program can use the NVIDIA GPU in addition to the CPU for some complicated calculations. AMD now made it possible to use their cards for it too.

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        9 months ago

        I know what CUDA does (as someone who likes rendering stuff, but with AMD cards, I’ve missed it). I’m trying to figure out, realistically, how I can easily deploy and make use of it on my linux and Mac workstations.

        the details o’ve come across lately have been a bit… vague.

        edit: back when I was in design school, I heard, “when Adobe loves a video card very much, it will hardware accelerate. We call this ‘CUDA’."