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Which is missing the point why CUDA has won.

Then again, maybe the goal is getting 0.1% of CUDA market share. /s

Nvidia has won because their compute drivers don't crash people's systems when they run e.g. Vulkan Compute.

You are mostly listing irrelevant nice to have things that aren't deal breakers. AMD's consumer GPUs have a long history of being abandoned a year or two after release.

CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, CUDA Anything PTX, plus libraries, IDE integration, GPU graphical debugging, aren't only nice to have things.

In the words of Gilfoyle-- I'll bite. Why has CUDA won?

CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, CUDA Anything PTX, plus libraries, IDE integration, GPU graphical debugging.

Coupled with Khronos, Intel, AMD never delivering anything comparable with OpenCL, Apple losing interest after Khronos didn't took OpenCL into the direction they wanted, Google never adopting it favouring their Renderscript dialect.

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