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		unnouinceput on Feb 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ComputeSharp, Run C# on the GPU CUDA is NVidia vendor lock-in. While not a bad things intrinsically, it does limit possibilities for a general purpose. With this one, you can just plug whatever GPU that supports DX12 into your hardware and start creating "incoming blockchain miners written in C# in ..3..2..1"

albertzeyer on Feb 23, 2021 | [–]

But why is ILGPU a problem then? ILGPU is CUDA + OpenCL. OpenCL should be fine, right?

lostmsu on Feb 23, 2021 | [–]

And DX12 is Microsoft vendor lock-in. To make a portable GPGPU app I'll have to use ILGPU. The only platform DX12 covers, that ILGPU does not is XBox.

ILGPU provides both Linux and MacOS.

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