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Yes, but how much until integrated beats separate card in $/performance? Once I bought a separate i387 chip for floating point. Later it was inside the main CP
by mcosta 6y ago
Yes, but how much until integrated beats separate card in $/performance?
Once I bought a separate i387 chip for floating point. Later it was inside the main CPU.
- gameswithgo 6y agoLots of jobs where a GPU is a factor of 1000x faster so...
- wongarsu 6y agoBoth CPU and GPU are in large part limited by power delivery and heat. Putting them both in one chip tends to make both of them worse. I wouldn't count on that reversing any time soon. It is however curious how CPU and GPU become more similar over time, with CPUs getting ever wider SIMD instructions and GPUs becoming better over time with branching code, integer performance, etc.
- gpderetta 6y agoThere is some convergence, but CPUs are still latency optimized and GPUs are throughput optimized which makes for vastly different architectures.
- rbanffy 6y ago> Putting them both in one chip tends to make both of them worse. You don’t need to do that for them to share a single memory address space. Putting them together would be useful if sharing caches between them made sense, but it doesn’t.
- Dylan16807 6y agoThey integrated it, but you were still buying it. You just saved a couple dollars on packaging. Similarly, an integrated GPU has a meaningful price advantage at low enough price tiers. But GPU price and power budgets have been pretty steady for a long time, so I wouldn't expect a major shift any time soon.
- monocasa 6y agoInterestingly the later separate i487 chip was in fact a full 486 CPU and 487 FPU on one die, and disabled the 486 CPU in the main CPU socket. Integration really means something, even when the product SKUs aren't there yet.