FPGAs excel at heterogenous tasks that are branching heavy but only use small amounts of local memory. You can call that simple but those are the bane of CPUs a

FPGAs excel at heterogenous tasks that are branching heavy but only use small amounts of local memory. You can call that simple but those are the bane of CPUs and GPUs. The moment you are memory heavy the FPGA loses it's edge because CPUs and GPUs are designed around hiding memory latency really well and they overall have higher memory bandwidths.