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Out of curiosity what jobs need a good CPU but also can't take advantage of a good GPU? It seems like most of the high performance numerical computing software
by 8192kjshad09- 5y ago
Out of curiosity what jobs need a good CPU but also can't take advantage of a good GPU?
It seems like most of the high performance numerical computing software today is GPU-accelerated. If performance for your job is super important, why isn't your software GPU-accelerated?
I might just be naive but it's honestly hard for me to imagine why anybody would need a good CPU and not also want a good GPU.
- imwillofficial 5y agoBecause here in the real world software isn’t GPU optimized in many cases.
- wmf 5y agoSince this is HN... compiling.
- 8192kjshad09- 5y agoGood point, not sure how I didn't see that, I'm a software engineer too.
- invalidname 5y agoCompiling is IO/RAM bound. CPU has impact but not much for most cases.
- katbyte 5y agoStatic code analysis on 100s of mb of code. Pins my m1max for 3min, my 2015 for 15-20ish.
- mbarbar 5y agoI work on static analysis (points-to analysis) that does not use any GPU at all and is mostly single threaded.