Shaders != CUDA Shaders have there own stripped down C language to run on parts of the graphics pipeline as apposed to CUDA which is a much richer framework wi

Shaders != CUDA Shaders have there own stripped down C language to run on parts of the graphics pipeline as apposed to CUDA which is a much richer framework with a lot more control (and knowledge) of the GPU it's running on. CUDA is an NVidia only GPU framework. Shaders are used in conjunction with graphics frameworks like OpenGL, DirectX(?) and WebGL. The interactive nature is great. Normally shaders are a just a big string or file that gets submitted to the graphics card driver to get compiled and run on the GPU.