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The "truth", for what that's worth, is that GPUs haven't been about graphics as a primary concern for quite a while now and the terminology hasn't kept pace. B
by Dalewyn 3y ago
The "truth", for what that's worth, is that GPUs haven't been about graphics as a primary concern for quite a while now and the terminology hasn't kept pace.
Besides, we're apparently here talking about GPUs that can't do graphics.
- piva00 3y agoI think the confusion is between the nature of the acronyms, GPUs are Graphic Processing Units as a hardware concept, GPGPU is a software concept to use GPUs for general processing.
- Dalewyn 3y agoIf the primary use case of Graphics Processing Units no longer concern graphics per se, would it not be prudent to rename them to something more appropriate? Personally, if we could use a new acronym all together I would prefer to just call them PPUs: Parallel Processing Units. That way we won't ever have to rename them ever again as the sands of time shift onwards.