• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    CUDA is when a program can use the NVIDIA GPU in addition to the CPU for some complicated calculations. AMD now made it possible to use their cards for it too.

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      10 months ago

      I know what CUDA does (as someone who likes rendering stuff, but with AMD cards, I’ve missed it). I’m trying to figure out, realistically, how I can easily deploy and make use of it on my linux and Mac workstations.

      the details o’ve come across lately have been a bit… vague.

      edit: back when I was in design school, I heard, “when Adobe loves a video card very much, it will hardware accelerate. We call this ‘CUDA’."

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        10 months ago

        You can’t use it with programs that aren’t specifically coded to use it. Outside of hash cracking, AI training and crypto mining, few programs are.

        If you mean from a developer perspective, you need to download the CUDA libraries and read through the documentation.