Very few common user tasks can be solved more efficiently with an FPGA than with a CPU or GPU. CPU gives you speed in computation. Except for a custom ASIC, no

Very few common user tasks can be solved more efficiently with an FPGA than with a CPU or GPU. CPU gives you speed in computation. Except for a custom ASIC, nothing can match a modern CPU in single thread speed. GPUs gives you parallelism. You can get thousands of decent CPUs in cheap boards today. IMHO FPGAs main advantages today are bandwidth and auditability. But neither are very important in most applications.