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by takinola 595 days ago
> Needless to say that’s not the case with GPUs and a lot of people that make the AMD vs Intel comparison don’t seem to understand that.

What needs to happen for GPUs to become as interchangeable as CPUs? What are the leading signs that this is becoming possible?
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_aavaa_ 595 days ago
What kind of interchangeable are you talking about? Vulkan and OpenCl exist.

The CPU analogy for the GPU case isn't AMD and Intel, it's x86 and ARM.

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takinola 594 days ago
What needs to happen for GPUs to be commoditized so that an infrastructure builder is relatively indifferent to using GPUs from Nvidia, AMD or any other provider?
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dagw 594 days ago
Either Nvidia has to open up CUDA to third party providers, or someone (OpenCL?) has to finally manage to create a high level cross hardware abstraction that has all the features of CUDA, can match CUDAs performance on Nvidia hardware and is as easy to use as CUDA. Honestly I'm not sure which is more unrealistic.
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