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It varies from application to application.

In my domain, we reach for the CUDA libraries to write the high-performance parts of our code. ;)



That requires special Hardware in contrast to C code.


I spent like a thousand dollars on the box sitting under my desk; I'm pretty sure my C code runs on special hardware too. ;)

(and worth noting: if I pull out the special hardware you're thinking of from that box, my particular thousand-dollar-box is no longer able to run software I need because the GUI requires a graphics accelerator card. The OS authors have already reached for a subset of CUDA to optimize the parts of the GUI that needed optimization).


Intel will not sell you an x86 processor without a GPU capable of compute these days.


That will affect a raspberry pi user how?


Raspberry Pi has a Videocore IV GPU on the chip.




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