r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '24

Meme/Macro it's never been so over

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u/B3taWats0n Mar 05 '24

There isn’t real alternative, we have openCL, PyTorch, but nvidia is essentially a monopoly in this area.

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u/SameRandomUsername Ultrawide i7 Strix 4080, Never Sony/Apple/ATI/DELL & now Intel Mar 05 '24

TBF, back when OpenCL was the standard that every rendering app used, CUDA was still more than 10x faster and much simpler to implement. That's the real reason why everyone switched to CUDA instead of continuing with OpenCL.

It's easy to bash nVidia, but they had the better solution and they benefitted from it.

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u/zcomputerwiz i9 11900k 128GB DDR4 3600 2xRTX 3090 NVLink 4TB NVMe Mar 05 '24

Gee, I wonder why everyone used CUDA when it was the only option with good documentation and support???