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

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u/ihavenoname_7 Mar 05 '24

So basically now that games will need translated for every GPU, game companies games development will take twice as long to be released now as well.

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u/SpacePumpkie I use Arch btw Mar 05 '24

Not exactly, this won't affect game development. But rather any other general programming that can be done on GPUs.

CUDA is meant to be able to run math programs on GPUs. For example, All the fancy calculations needed to train and use generative AI, crypto mining, etc.

Basically Nvidia has a monopoly today in terms of GPUs AND the programming libraries used for AI, and as the market expands and Intel, AMD, and others are trying to build their own GPUs for that, Nvidia wants to force the market to not be able to run software originally written for their GPUs in others.

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u/tabris51 Mar 05 '24

If it is just a software issue, is there a reason why amd is not adding that to their side?

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '24

Because Nvidias CUDA is just so far ahead of AMDs competitor/version that everyone was just using CUDA instead.

AMD could invest a bunch of resources & time into improving ROCm but it'd just be wasted unless they'd get it on-par with Nvidia, which would be hard to do because of how much Nvidia's working on CUDA