Huawei GPUs one year after NVIDIA's monopoly 'death': CUDA compatibility still elusive
Reddit users report mixed results with Huawei Ascend GPUs and CUDA translation layers...
Deep Dive
Nearly a year after mass hysteria erupted over the supposed death of NVIDIA's GPU monopoly, the question remains: How are your Huawei GPUs, and does CUDA work on them yet?
Key Points
- Huawei Ascend GPUs deliver ~60-80% native CUDA inference speed via CANN translation
- Large model training still unsupported due to missing CUDA libraries like FlashAttention
- Adoption remains confined to Chinese AI labs; global ecosystem lacks mature software stack
Why It Matters
Hardware competition is irrelevant without software parity—CUDA's moat remains deep for AI professionals.