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I quibble with your label of "bad GPU," though the relative magnitude of resources and performance is right. Modern GEN is actually a good-to-great GPU architec
by jrk 10y ago
I quibble with your label of "bad GPU," though the relative magnitude of resources and performance is right. Modern GEN is actually a good-to-great GPU architecture (an assessment widely shared in the GPU architecture community today), it's just not given many resources compared to a large discrete GPU, especially in lower-end SKUs like this.
Work like this is interesting because it digs into ways—at the architectural level, well below the standard programming models of OpenGL/D3D/OpenCL—that GEN is a potentially more efficient general purpose programming target than NVIDIA architectures, hamstrung by a commitment to a programming model (OpenCL) which is strongly tied to an NVIDIA-style execution model.