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But this particular one isn't designed for graphics work either, so it shouldn't be called GPU.
by Narishma 3y ago
But this particular one isn't designed for graphics work either, so it shouldn't be called GPU.
- samus 3y agoIt's in the very name: "Tiny-GPU". Since it's a demonstration project by a hobbyist, the author probably didn't want to implement the whole optimized rendering stack yet. On the other hand, they also left out some features that you'd expect to find on a general-purpose compute accelerator. For example, they focus on tensor math. No support for bit wrangling and other integer math. No exotic floating point formats. Minimal branching capabilities.
- Narishma 3y agoThe name is what I'm contesting. It's called Tiny-GPU but there's no mention of graphics functionality anywhere in the project.
- samus 3y agoGraphics pretty much boils down to matrix multiplication, and that's exactly what this thing accelerates. If it were a generalized accellerator, it would have to support other kinds of arithmetic as well.
- Narishma 3y agoAgree to disagree. I'll stop here because we're just wasting time running in circles.