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If it is in fact a CPU designed to be used like a GPU, that’d be very akin to Intel’s (dead) Project Larabee.[0] As I understand it, it was supposed to be a GPG
by colejohnson66 6y ago
If it is in fact a CPU designed to be used like a GPU, that’d be very akin to Intel’s (dead) Project Larabee.[0] As I understand it, it was supposed to be a GPGPU[a] that internally was just an x86-64 processor with massive vector units. So, in theory, one could offload practically an entire game onto a Larabee card (save for IO probably) and do computations there. Compare that to a GPU where computations must be sent back and forth between the CPU and GPU.
Linus Sebastion (of LinusTechTips) managed to get his hands on one and made a video on it.[1] It’s been a while since I’ve seen the video, but, IIRC, they weren’t able to get it to work, so the video was a bit of a letdown.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-1fAVU1OQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-1fAVU1OQ
[a]: general purpose GPU