quinkin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA softwarewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down18cross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
arrow-up1271arrow-down1external-linkNvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA softwarewww.tomshardware.comquinkin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前message-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 年前How does this make sense? If you’ve got an NVIDIA card, you don’t need an emulation level. And if you have a different hardware that needs an emulation layer, you don’t have to agree to those NVIDIA terms, because you are not using their products.
minus-squarequinkin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 年前The EULA is associated with the CUDA software, not the NVIDIA hardware.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前The “cuda cores” you are probably thinking of are hardware implementations of the cuda software
How does this make sense? If you’ve got an NVIDIA card, you don’t need an emulation level. And if you have a different hardware that needs an emulation layer, you don’t have to agree to those NVIDIA terms, because you are not using their products.
The EULA is associated with the CUDA software, not the NVIDIA hardware.
Ah, OK. TIL. Thanks.
The “cuda cores” you are probably thinking of are hardware implementations of the cuda software