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Software rendering will only be slow until everyone has manycore processors with SIMD. The die area of threadripper isn’t far from a GPU’s die area.
by ryacko 8y ago
Software rendering will only be slow until everyone has manycore processors with SIMD. The die area of threadripper isn’t far from a GPU’s die area.
- Crinus 8y agoYeah, actually the other day i was thinking about getting a 2990WX to try writing a software renderer on it and see how it performs. Too bad it is way too expensive (and Zen 2 CPUs are around the corner).
- tntn 8y ago(Hi Larabee)
- Crinus 8y agoWhenever i re-read Tom Forsyth's (who worked on it) article about Larrabee [1], i facepalm hard at Intel's decision to drop it. It is one of the few cases where i really wanted to put my hands on that sort of hardware. An essentially standalone manycore CPU on a PCI express form that is running FreeBSD or Linux, with a bit of graphics specific functionality that doubles as a video card and you can fully program like a PC? I have "I WANT! I WANT! I WANT!" signs blinking in my head as i type this :-P. (facepalm mainly because i wanted it, i do not know the economical details) Funny enough, the Forsyth's (and another one from another team member i do not remember now) article sold me more on Larrabee than any PR speak Intel made. [1] http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20didn%27t%20Larrabee%20fail%3F%5D%5D http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...