The Radeon RX 9070 XT performs at a similar level to the RTX 5070, and is retailing around $600 right now.
Molecular dynamics simulations, and related structural bio tasks.
I use Vulkan for graphics, but Vulkan compute is a mess.
I'm not in a mindshare, and this isn't a political thing. I am just trying to get the job done, and have observed that no alternative has stepped up to nvidia's CUDA from a usability perspective.
> have observed that no alternative has stepped up to nvidia's CUDA from a usability perspective.
I’m saying this is a mindshare thing if you haven’t evaluated ROCm / HIP. HIPify can convert CUDA source to HIP automatically and HIP is very similar syntax to CUDA.