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> Sorry, who are these people that don't have a GPU Literally millions of people. Especially circa early 2000's when this started. > GPU that literally everyo
by Zandikar 3y ago
> Sorry, who are these people that don't have a GPU
Literally millions of people. Especially circa early 2000's when this started.
> GPU that literally everyone has access to?
They don't. (Money is a barrier to access).
> Why would you spend 100 hours on an "i7"
Because it's what they had/have.
This a competition to move understanding forward, not to see who has the biggest budget.
- nomel 3y agoThe level of privilege that some people are completely blind to is just incredible.
- modeless 3y agoSure, in the early 2000s. But today literally every laptop or desktop computer or phone with a touchscreen has a GPU. Even most feature phones have GPUs, I'd actually be interested to see if you could find a currently manufactured one that doesn't. And they have all been programmable for a very long time now. And almost without exception they have more FLOPS than all of the CPUs in the same machine put together, yes, even the integrated GPUs.
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- TheRealPomax 3y agoIn which case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502782 And 20 years changed A LOT of things, turns out the folks who can't afford a deskop or laptop don't need to, they have a call phone. And even cell phones have GPUs that are more powerful than the CPUs of 20 years ago.