[slt2021]

each nVidia GPU has a certain Compute Capability (https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus).

Depending on the model and age of your GPU, it will have a certain capability that will be the hard ceiling for what you can program using CUDA

[dpe82]

When you're just getting started and learning that won't matter though. Any Nvidia card from the last 10 years should be fine.

[sanderjd]

Recognizing that this won't result in any useful benchmarks, is there a way to emulate an nvidia gpu? In a docker container, for instance?