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by p0nce 3348 days ago
NVIDIA will prevent you to buy gaming hardware and push you into buying the 10x more expensive ones.

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.

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