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I think people are just saying it isn’t very cost effective to use a whole GPU as 1/32 of a modest (modern?) CPU.
by bee_rider 2y ago
I think people are just saying it isn’t very cost effective to use a whole GPU as 1/32 of a modest (modern?) CPU.
- quotemstr 2y agoCars are slow and inefficient in reverse gear but a car that couldn't drive in reverse would be broken.
- bee_rider 2y agoYou put “can’t” in quotes, so I guess you are quoting somebody, but I don’t see where the quote is from, so I’m not sure what they actually meant. But I suspect they are using “can’t” informally. Like: You can’t run a drag race in reverse. Ok, you technically could, but it would be a silly thing to do.
- imtringued 2y agoWhy would that matter? Adding extra CPU cores to the GPU sounds like a much dumber idea to me. You'd be wasting silicon on something that is meant to be used infrequently. Is it really that difficult to imagine 1% of your workload doing some sort of management code, except since it is running on your GPU, you can now freely intersperse those 1% every 50 microseconds without too much overhead?