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by jacquesm
3349 days ago
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And given that CUDA is essentially free and you simply pay for the hardware it is actually not such a bad deal. Economies of scale are such that if you can run your workload on gaming hardware you're going to get incredible performance for very little money. |
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There are 2 NVIDIA drivers. It turns out pinned memory transfers are 2x faster with the Tesla driver (vs the Geforce driver). This can matter a lot for some workloads. For some reason you can't use the faster driver with cheap consumer cards.
So, in my view NVIDIA is dumbing down performance for OpenCL and CUDA alike, and also slowing down the unavoidable OpenCL adoption.