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		the__alchemist on May 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPUs Go Brrr Compared to CUDA, Vulkan is... not fun to code compute in! The serialization bridge and duplicating data structures and functions between CPU and GPU is tedious.

dartos on May 13, 2024 [–]

I hear both CUDA and Vulkan are not fun to code in.

But yeah Vulkan is famously verbose. It takes about 1000 LoC to draw a triangle

KeplerBoy on May 13, 2024 | [–]

CUDA is very much fun to code in!

Nvidia provides devs with great tools (Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute), so you know where you have to optimize.

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