SASS is: the actual machine code that runs on NVIDIA GPU hardware

nvcc does: NVIDIA's CUDA compiler that produces PTX and SASS

How can a single software make your computer super fast for certain tasks?

Arm architecture family

ARM processors are the most widely used family of instruction set architectures

XLA does for TensorFlow/JAX: compiles computation graphs for TPU/GPU execution

How can you speed up your favorite video game?

Parallel Thread Execution

PTX is an intermediate GPU instruction set used in Nvidia's CUDA

Nvidia

Ever wondered how video games run so smoothly on your computer?

a Triton kernel is

Can your phone run faster with a different brain?