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… PyTorch is probably the best demonstration of that. PyTorch 2.9 brought ROCm into its experimental wheel-variant work, making installation less awkward with compatible tooling, but the more important parts are what's happened since. …
… Intel's XPU backend has been upstreamed into mainline PyTorch, meaning any Arc GPU can run PyTorch workloads natively without a separate extension. vLLM also has an official XPU backend that supports Intel Arc GPUs, and the performance numbers can be genuinely good. …
… It's open source, built on Python and PyTorch, and was originally created in January 2023 by a developer called Comfyanonymous. …
… The install process also brings in PyTorch, which Whisper uses under the hood for running inference. …
… PyTorch, TensorFlow, and a disproportionate amount of tools you'd find on GitHub assume CUDA as the backend, which affords anyone using an RTX card a relatively frictionless experience. …
… I used Unsloth inside Nvidia's official PyTorch Docker container for the DGX Spark platform. …