# GPU sort WIP (GPU 1000x faster than CPU? I must be doing something wrong)

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**Category:** GPU\
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**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gpu-sort-wip-gpu-1000x-faster-than-cpu-i-must-be-doing-something-wrong/20310 "2019-01-31T12:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![maleadt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/maleadt/32/10097_2.png) [@maleadt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/maleadt)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gpu-sort-wip-gpu-1000x-faster-than-cpu-i-must-be-doing-something-wrong/20310/11 "2019-01-31T15:10:24Z")

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> [@cnliao](#):
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> cudanative was lacking a few features like thread local storage, texture memory or something like that

Yes, quite some CUDA features are missing. I’d love to spend more time on that, but there’s been very little interest in these features. So definitely open issues or ask for help if you’re interested.

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