NVIDIA announced official CUDA Rust toolchains: cuda-oxide for direct PTX codegen from MIR, and cutile-rs for memory-safe tile operations on Stable Rust.
Tested FramePack F1 on an RTX 4060 Laptop (8GB VRAM, 32GB RAM): VRAM peaked at 5.75GB, but the 26GB model overflowed RAM into the pagefile and a 5s clip took 56 min. The real bottleneck for local video gen on a laptop is RAM, not VRAM.
Based on EE Times' interview with AMD AI Software VP Anush Elangovan, we assess the ROCm vs CUDA ecosystem gap. Includes hands-on experience with ROCm breaking four times on Strix Halo, plus practical guidance on choosing between NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple Silicon.
WAN 2.2 image-to-video on Windows + RTX 4060 8GB VRAM in ComfyUI. The 5B fp8 model failed three times; the 14B Rapid distilled model with --lowvram offloading produced a 2-second clip in 111 seconds — vs 82 minutes on M1 Max 64GB. Working setup and what to avoid.
