I've seen papers where the author seemed to do a respectable job of benchmarking and usually CUDA came out 10% to (rarely) 40% faster. Still not enough of a gai

I've seen papers where the author seemed to do a respectable job of benchmarking and usually CUDA came out 10% to (rarely) 40% faster. Still not enough of a gain to prompt me to marry a hardware-vendor-specific language. I think people like CUDA because Nvidia puts a serious effort into their development tools and Marketing. That's not meaningless.