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GPGPU APIs compared. (OpenCL vs CUDA vs DirectCompute)

Posted: 2nd August 2011 by admin in CUDA, DirectCompute, GPGPU, OpenCL, Programming
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If you are looking into accelerating your application with a GPGPU solution you have 3 major APIs to choose from: OpenCL, CUDA, DirectCompute. This post will cover a very high level overview of the pros and cons of each API. CUDA Pros: C-like language called C for CUDA for writing the kernel code. Kernel code has [...]