[pjmlp]

NVidia cards are everywhere, the biggest difference to AMD is that even my lousy laptop GeForce cards can be used for CUDA.

No need for a RTX for learning and getting into CUDA programming.

[gymbeaux]

True, although I believe Maxwell is the oldest supported architecture for the current CUDA 12.x. Maxwell (eg GTX 980) came out around 2013, if memory serves. 10+ years of support is not bad at all considering ROCm supports only like 3 consumer AMD GPUs.

So your lousy laptop GTX 750Ti ehhh probably can’t practically be used for CUDA. But your lousy 1050Ti Max-Q? Sure.