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The article explains it. You offload a lot of the processing required by the CPU onto the SSD, and you minimize read writes for the SSD architecture, reducing e
by Quenty 7y ago
The article explains it. You offload a lot of the processing required by the CPU onto the SSD, and you minimize read writes for the SSD architecture, reducing emulation requirements.
- zzzcpan 7y agoAdding more dedicated hardware that does what you can do on the hardware you already have is not necessarily an advantage.
- amerine 7y agoSpecial purpose silicon is almost always faster and offloading stacks of IO cycles from the main cores is definitely a great thing.
- comboy 7y agoLatency matters. You can execute instructions much faster from firmware on the SSD and higher abstraction level instruction usually translates to many low level instructions.
- brirec 7y agoNot necessarily, but often enough that the most expensive part in a mid range or high end gaming PC is an accelerator card meant to offload certain forms of computation that the CPU can't do as fast... Or perhaps the h.264/h.265 codecs built into modern CPUs and GPUs? And this isn't at all a new phenomenon, either. We've been using accelerators and coprocessors (as they were often originally known) for decades.