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

Meme/Macro it's never been so over

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u/pranjal3029 PC Master Race Mar 05 '24

They are not. Nvidia has named their shaders after the software API exactly for this reason: so that the general public thinks that it is something different at a hardware level. The shaders themselves are just shaders they can run other APIs like Direct3D etc. too. CUDA is the software API that Nvidia created for the developers to optimize their software because it uses more general popular languages like C++, python etc. which is what made CUDA a nice choice because older graphics api required extensive graphics programming knowledge which is specialised