== History and Current State of CUDA ==

NVIDIA’s first CUDA architecture was called Fermi.

Due to its proprietary nature, a limitation of CUDA is the number of devices supported and systems it can extend. This proprietary nature allows NVIDIA to completely maximize performance, resulting in CUDA outperforming OpenCL, at least on any given CUDA enabled device.

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