For this book, we recommend that you have the following hardware as a minimum:
- 64-bit Intel/AMD-based PC
- 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU (or higher)
This configuration will ensure that you can comfortably learn GPU programming, run all of the examples in this book, and also run some of the other newer and interesting GPU-based software, such as Google's TensorFlow (a machine learning framework) or the Vulkan SDK (a cutting-edge graphics API).
As stated, we will be assuming that you are using either the ...