K, this is one of those “and now I’m afraid to ask” memes, but comnents like yours have me super confused. What’s all the CUDA about?
I have 2 machines with AMD CPU/GPU hardware. SOC maybe? I really didn’t pay much attention outside of wanting the extra CPU cores for… reasons. They’re both Ryzen, one’s a 5, 'tother a 7. The GPU component has always worked fantastically, but I don’t stress it much as I’m not a gamer. The CPU component has been a dream for my many-threaded needs. And so I’m confused when people chip in about this news complaining about AMD. What, exactly, isn’t working for people, and why don’t I notice it?
CUDA is Nvidia’s conputation toolkit and language. it opens up to developers ways to accelerate tasks using the GPU. GPUs are usually really good at doing 2 things better than CPUs, Floating point math, and linear algebra (think a gpu to be like thousands of dumb smaller cores vs a couple of large cores with multiple instructions like the CPU.)
CUDAs main strength is that it makes programming a lot easier for devs, at the cost that its implementation is black box and proprietary. when you have devs use such a proprietary language, the it makes it significantly harder to jump ship if your work relies on it to make a profit.
K, this is one of those “and now I’m afraid to ask” memes, but comnents like yours have me super confused. What’s all the CUDA about?
I have 2 machines with AMD CPU/GPU hardware. SOC maybe? I really didn’t pay much attention outside of wanting the extra CPU cores for… reasons. They’re both Ryzen, one’s a 5, 'tother a 7. The GPU component has always worked fantastically, but I don’t stress it much as I’m not a gamer. The CPU component has been a dream for my many-threaded needs. And so I’m confused when people chip in about this news complaining about AMD. What, exactly, isn’t working for people, and why don’t I notice it?
CUDA is Nvidia’s conputation toolkit and language. it opens up to developers ways to accelerate tasks using the GPU. GPUs are usually really good at doing 2 things better than CPUs, Floating point math, and linear algebra (think a gpu to be like thousands of dumb smaller cores vs a couple of large cores with multiple instructions like the CPU.)
CUDAs main strength is that it makes programming a lot easier for devs, at the cost that its implementation is black box and proprietary. when you have devs use such a proprietary language, the it makes it significantly harder to jump ship if your work relies on it to make a profit.