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> There are more computers on the Top 500 supercomputer list using AMD GPUs than Nvidia GPUs. I'd like to see numbers on that. CUDA hits in Google: 24,000,000
by bhouston 11y ago
> There are more computers on the Top 500 supercomputer list using AMD GPUs than Nvidia GPUs.
I'd like to see numbers on that.
CUDA hits in Google: 24,000,000
OpenCL hits in Google: 1,000,000
I tried to use OpenCL a number of years ago and the drivers were brutal. CUDA just works.
The number of great libraries available for CUDA is huge, where as the OpenCL ecosystem is more expensive to participate in because those fundamental libraries are not available.
You will get more bang for your buck doing CUDA on Windows or Linux than OpenCL.
- DiabloD3 11y agoActually, seems I'm wrong about that, there are now more Nvidia users on that list now. Wasn't true last time I checked. The problem with CUDA is vendor lock in. Requiring Nvidia hardware (and Nvidia binary drivers on Linux) is a no go for a lot of use cases. If you need compute code that works on all platforms and all operating systems, OpenCL is your only choice.