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44 minutes ago, hypercubed said:

Is RDNA and CUDA to GPUs what x86 and ARM are to CPUs? Or do GPUs use x86 or something?

RDNA refers to the microarchitecture for graphics processing units and accompanying ISA (instruction set architecture). CUDA refers to more of a software layer to allow for the hardware to follow parallel computing. 

 

EDIT: Also, Nvidia's naming for specific generations of graphics cards, such as Ampere, Turing, Maxwell, Fermi, refer to the architecture of the GPU. 

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44 minutes ago, hypercubed said:

Is RDNA and CUDA to GPUs what x86 and ARM are to CPUs? Or do GPUs use x86 or something?

RDNA refers to the microarchitecture for graphics processing units and accompanying ISA (instruction set architecture). CUDA refers to more of a software layer to allow for the hardware to follow parallel computing. 

 

EDIT: Also, Nvidia's naming for specific generations of graphics cards, such as Ampere, Turing, Maxwell, Fermi, refer to the architecture of the GPU. 

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RDNA and Nvidia's Ampere, Turing etc. are physical properties of the chips they make.  Like if you look at the physical design of the chips.

 

X86 and ARM are the instruction (Software) sets that a specific chip uses to process data.

 

Cuda is software used to make some GPUs process general purpose data.  That is, not graphics.

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