They really don't, no. Vulkan: 50 lines to allocate device memory. Cuda: One single line. What kind of extensive documentation stack do you want for functionality that is trivial in Cuda? And that exact issue continues through every little step of the way to your first usable application. I know there is VMA, it is a very poor solution to a problem that shouldn't even exist, and it only poorly addresses one of 100 parts of the API where Cuda is vastly simpler than Vulkan. Cuda also doesnt force you to use queue families but you can optionally use streams. No ridiculous descriptor management and binding in cuda, just passing pointers and handles via launch arguments. No overengineered explicit syncing mechanis in cuda, everything is nicely implicitly synced until you explicitly opt in to parallel streams. etc.