Comment by coolsunglasses

I'd love for someone to give me an alternative to CUDA but I don't primarily use GPUs for inference, I do 64-bit unsigned integer workloads and the only people who seem to care even a little about this currently are NVidia, if imperfectly.

I _really_ want an alternative but the architecture churn imposed by targeting ROCm for say an MI350X is brutal. The way their wavefronts and everything work is significantly different enough that if you're trying to get last-mile perf (which for GPUs unfortunately yawns back into the 2-5x stretch) you're eating a lot of pain to get the same cost-efficiency out of AMD hardware.

FPGAs aren't really any more cost effective unless the $/kwh goes into the stratosphere which is a hypothetical I don't care to contemplate.