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My view is CUDA has already won, and everyone else needs to get over it. Even clang supports PTX now, which is a reasonably device agnostic representation, albe
by krona 9y ago
My view is CUDA has already won, and everyone else needs to get over it. Even clang supports PTX now, which is a reasonably device agnostic representation, albeit controlled mostly by Nvidia. Perhaps intel will introduce their own extensions to this ISA.
Even if my precompiled CUDA application could run on Intel GPUs at 50% of the throughput, I'd be happy if I could later tweak and recompile it to get the full benefits from their hardware.
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- sounds 9y agoYes, Intel knows how to play when they own the instruction set (x86, sse1,2,3,4 and amd64). No, amd64 is just cross-licensing between two and only two companies. AMD will never catch Intel. Ergo, Intel owns amd64 too. It shouldn't be a surprise then that along comes NVidia with their own instruction set, PTX, and Intel's desire to own the instruction set will be their undoing.