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> Last time I ran the back-of-the-envelope numbers (admittedly 2-3 years ago) they weren't competitive with GPUs on price/flops and price/iops. To me, that sou
by Florin_Andrei 12y ago
> Last time I ran the back-of-the-envelope numbers (admittedly 2-3 years ago) they weren't competitive with GPUs on price/flops and price/iops.
To me, that sounds more like the problem was not a good fit for FPGA hardware.
I'm just speculating, though.
- jjoonathan 12y agoYes, that's exactly what I'm saying. FPGAs simply weren't competitive for applications that were limited by sheer floating-point/integer throughput. It's not that they weren't good for a single very narrow application, they weren't good for a very broad swath of compute-intensive applications. That explains the low adoption rates.