There has been more and more “GPU chauvinism” over the past decade. For whatever reason many people have come to see the GPU architecture as the pinnacle of mod

There has been more and more “GPU chauvinism” over the past decade. For whatever reason many people have come to see the GPU architecture as the pinnacle of modern computing, seemingly unaware of its limitations. Although CPUs are boring in comparison, they most often don’t require special toolchains, shader languages, near and far memory, etc. Moreover, SIMD instruction sets like AVX-512 or SVE2 offer extremely impressive performance, often negating the need for a GPU altogether. Of course this isn’t to be dismissive of GPUs, they are a welcome addition to the compute stack. But the humble CPU should not be underestimated.