I wonder if an analogy with graphics would be that "simple algorithms that leveraged compute" would not be "brute force everything with 1000 gpus + ray tracing"

I wonder if an analogy with graphics would be that "simple algorithms that leveraged compute" would not be "brute force everything with 1000 gpus + ray tracing", it might be a pixel shader that simulated water taking the state of the art a bit further.