CUDA and close to metal happened at the same time. One is a framework, language extensions etc., the other is “heyy here’s an assembler for this year’s GPUs”

CUDA and close to metal happened at the same time. One is a framework, language extensions etc., the other is “heyy here’s an assembler for this year’s GPUs” Also in ~2008 nVidia already made dedicated hardware for GPU compute like this thing: https://www.nvidia.com/docs/io/43395/d870-systemspec-sp-03718-001_v01.pdf https://www.nvidia.com/docs/io/43395/d870-systemspec-sp-0371...