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The "72 cores" is marketing drivel . The stream processors found in GPUs are not general purpose and certainly not equivalent to a cpu core. This number of co
by mariusmg 14y ago
The "72 cores" is marketing drivel . The stream processors found in GPUs are not general purpose and certainly not equivalent to a cpu core.
This number of cores remarks started to remind me of the gigahertz race between Intel, Amd and Cyrix back in the days.
- mtgx 14y agoI don't think they ever claimed or even misled people into thinking those are 72 CPU cores - even at the event. I think pretty much everyone knows they're talking about GPU cores, and not just to say that "we have more GPU cores than you do", but to compare to their previous "12 GPU core Tegra 3". Besides, they were talking about the 4 Cortex A15 cores all the time.
- willvarfar 14y agoTake a look at the very first image right at the top of the article. I never saw them mixing up the GPU and CPU cores. They have 4 CPU cores and they kept on saying it.
- zanny 14y agoWell, 5 cpu cores, one is invisible to the OS though.
- unwind 14y agoThe number of cores is not "drivel", and it's also not new. This kind of information is absolutely standard fare when talking about GPUs nowadays. See for instance the (huge) tables at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_p..., under the "Config core" column you can see each model's configuration of cores. You can see that the idea that a GPU has several types of core, and various amount of each, goes back 5+ years.