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> CUDA is not designed to be vendor agnostic and Nvidia can make things arbitrarily difficult [...] technically. (Let's put the legal questions aside for a mo
by Wowfunhappy 2y ago
> CUDA is not designed to be vendor agnostic and Nvidia can make things arbitrarily difficult [...] technically.
(Let's put the legal questions aside for a moment.)
nVidia changes GPU architectures every generation / few generations, right? How does CUDA work across those—and how can it have forwards compatibility in the future—if it's not designed to be technologically agnostic?
- andy_ppp 2y agoOne way is to make sure the hardware team does certain things to support easy transition to new architectures, we have seen this with Apple Silicon for example!
- saagarjha 2y agoPTX is meant to be portable across GPU microarchitectures. That said, Nvidia owns the entire spec, so they can just keep adding new instructions that their GPUs now support but AMD GPUs don't.