The paper covers the reasons, and they aren't new or specific to Intel. There was a talk by Andrew Lauritzen basically saying the same thing a few years back.

The paper covers the reasons, and they aren't new or specific to Intel. There was a talk by Andrew Lauritzen basically saying the same thing a few years back. https://www.ea.com/seed/news/seed-siggraph2017-compute-for-graphics https://www.ea.com/seed/news/seed-siggraph2017-compute-for-g... DX etc have been slowly exposing some of the underlying SIMD but it is still not really on the level of what is available in a full SIMD model like we have with AVX etc. GPU languages like HLSL/GLSL are designed for ease of use and leave some performance on the ground.