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Comment by bigyabai

3 hours ago

CUDA is proprietary for a pretty understandable reason. There's no good way for Nvidia to standardize it.

They supported OpenCL when Khronos floated the idea of a GPGPU standard to manufacturers, but OEMs didn't want to design scalable hardware or sponsor the software.

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