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Exactly the tech industry has been incapable of coming out with new functionality that really requires more power. The only thing I can see which is going to b
by jernfrost 11y ago
Exactly the tech industry has been incapable of coming out with new functionality that really requires more power.
The only thing I can see which is going to benefit a lot from CPU power is more advance AI or machine learning built in. But we are only seeing very gradual moves in this area now.
VR and Games are also candidates of course, but most people aren't hard core gamers. They are fine with Angry Birds ;-)
And with the bandwidth we got today, it wouldn't necessarily be a big problem to offload much of that processing to servers and do it as a service instead. In many ways we might be heading back to the dumb clients of old where the majority of processing happens on a remote server.
- dragandj 11y agoThe problem for Intel is that AI and machine learning are going to be typically done on the GPU. So, Nvidia. Also, a chance for AMD to recover.
- testic 11y agoYep, Moore's law is still going on strong in GPUs.
- gambler 11y agoWell, that's just another way of stating that CPUs have fallen way, way behind graphics cards in terms of power. At some point in the past the difference in power wasn't nearly as large. If there were consumer-grade 16- and 32- core Intel processors with reasonable prices I would consider buying them for the sake of certain experiments. It would save me from dealing with CUDA or OpenCL. But right now that's the domain of pricey high-end server stuff.
- Nullabillity 11y agoEven games are slowing down a lot in their requirements, aside from that VR garbage.
- vacri 11y agoInterestingly, there's a strategy game series called Europa Universalis, which moved from a 2D map to a 3D map quite a while ago... the reason being that the 2D map was rendered by the CPU, whereas a 3D map could be shunted off to the GPU to deal with, freeing up precious CPU cycles for the game logic.
- majewsky 11y ago2D maps can be rendered by a GPU just fine. However, when you're doing the upgrade from CPU rendering to GPU rendering anyway, you likely want to have some returns, so they probably just went to 3D in the same step with few extra development cost.
- agumonkey 11y agoOr maybe we just reached an entertainment / office plateau. Having more compute power benefits high end needs not average consumer ones.