Very true. It is for the same reason that the article shows GPU progress outpacing CPU's in regards to FLOPS. The limited scope of a GPU's functionality allows

Very true. It is for the same reason that the article shows GPU progress outpacing CPU's in regards to FLOPS. The limited scope of a GPU's functionality allows most of the processor's silicon to be arithmetic units. CPU's, on the other hand, have huge sections of their real estate dedicated to handling conditional logic (something most GPU's fail miserably at), legacy instruction handling, virtualization, etc.