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Close to Metal

Quality:

Close to Metal - low level GPGPU programming interface. This programming language is the 390th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 380th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Close to Metal” in English Wikipedia has 14.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Arabic Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 390th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Close to Metal”, its content was written by 29 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 82 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Close to Metal is on the 380th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 390th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 100 times in English Wikipedia and cited 312 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #83525 in February 2007
  • Global: #61541 in July 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #101237 in June 2008
  • Global: #162106 in June 2008

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Arabic (ar)
كلوس تو متال
21.284
2Spanish (es)
Close to Metal
18.8019
3Ukrainian (uk)
Close to Metal
18.0007
4Finnish (fi)
Close to Metal
17.3543
5English (en)
Close to Metal
14.2791
6Portuguese (pt)
Close to Metal
11.5588
7French (fr)
Technologie ATI Stream
9.2288
8Russian (ru)
Close to Metal
3.2675
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Close to Metal" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Close to Metal
226 864
2Russian (ru)
Close to Metal
28 308
3French (fr)
Technologie ATI Stream
28 060
4Spanish (es)
Close to Metal
9 206
5Arabic (ar)
كلوس تو متال
3 939
6Finnish (fi)
Close to Metal
2 515
7Ukrainian (uk)
Close to Metal
353
8Portuguese (pt)
Close to Metal
25
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Close to Metal" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Close to Metal
302
2French (fr)
Technologie ATI Stream
26
3Russian (ru)
Close to Metal
19
4Spanish (es)
Close to Metal
14
5Portuguese (pt)
Close to Metal
11
6Ukrainian (uk)
Close to Metal
10
7Arabic (ar)
كلوس تو متال
4
8Finnish (fi)
Close to Metal
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Close to Metal" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Close to Metal
29
2French (fr)
Technologie ATI Stream
19
3Russian (ru)
Close to Metal
12
4Finnish (fi)
Close to Metal
9
5Spanish (es)
Close to Metal
7
6Arabic (ar)
كلوس تو متال
3
7Ukrainian (uk)
Close to Metal
2
8Portuguese (pt)
Close to Metal
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Close to Metal" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
كلوس تو متال
0
2English (en)
Close to Metal
0
3Spanish (es)
Close to Metal
0
4Finnish (fi)
Close to Metal
0
5French (fr)
Technologie ATI Stream
0
6Portuguese (pt)
Close to Metal
0
7Russian (ru)
Close to Metal
0
8Ukrainian (uk)
Close to Metal
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Close to Metal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Close to Metal
100
2Portuguese (pt)
Close to Metal
65
3Ukrainian (uk)
Close to Metal
50
4Russian (ru)
Close to Metal
47
5Arabic (ar)
كلوس تو متال
25
6French (fr)
Technologie ATI Stream
17
7Spanish (es)
Close to Metal
7
8Finnish (fi)
Close to Metal
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
كلوس تو متال
enEnglish
Close to Metal
esSpanish
Close to Metal
fiFinnish
Close to Metal
frFrench
Technologie ATI Stream
ptPortuguese
Close to Metal
ruRussian
Close to Metal
ukUkrainian
Close to Metal

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#101237
06.2008
Global:
#162106
06.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#83525
02.2007
Global:
#61541
07.2009

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Close to Metal from Wikipedia articles about ROCm, OpenCL, Radeon HD 2000 Series, Comparison of AMD graphics processing units and General-purpose computing on graphics processing units. Whereas reading the article about Close to Metal people most often go to Wikipedia articles on OpenCL, AMD FireStream, BrookGPU, ROCm and CUDA.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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