Although graphics companies like to talk about "cores" or "processors" to make their GPUs sound powerful, they are really just counting ALUs. If you marketed th

Although graphics companies like to talk about "cores" or "processors" to make their GPUs sound powerful, they are really just counting ALUs. If you marketed this chip similarly, you'd end up with something silly like "1024 AVX Core CPU". A closer analogue of x86 cores is what Nvidia calls a "Streaming Multiprocessor" and AMD calls a "Compute Unit". There's generally only up to 64-80 of those on the highest end GPUs too. However the difference is that each of those cores is able to perform 40-64 SIMD operations at once, compared to x86's puny 8 or 16 or so.