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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoHow 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-up13arrow-down1·1 year agoThe EULA is associated with the CUDA software, not the NVIDIA hardware.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThe “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