AMD announced that it has released the HIP SDK for Windows intending to democratize GPU computing. You no longer must choose between Team CUDA or Team HIP, as the HIP SDK will help developers make CUDA applications run on AMD hardware. Notably, this new SDK will run on a select number of consumer Radeon GPUs.
There has always been a significant divide between developers that work with GPU-accelerated applications. Some prefer Nvidia's proprietary CUDA API, while others opt for the open-source HIP API. The HIP SDK, part of AMD's ROCm platform, wants to bridge that gap, allowing developers to convert CUDA applications into C++ code that will work on Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. ROCm targets HPC and AI applications, whereas HIP is for typical desktop applications.
