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Interesting stuff.
Could there become a point where you could run a computer simply from a GPU instead of having both a CPU and GPU? Thinking of the future of course.
Interesting stuff.
Could there become a point where you could run a computer simply from a GPU instead of having both a CPU and GPU? Thinking of the future of course.
Well nVidia don't have an x86 license, so they can't produce anything that will be able to run windows without a traditional CPU.
They wont need one, they will run CPU and the GPU together in a co-processing model, simples
hopefully nvidia see sense and port physx to opencl
They wont need one, they will run CPU and the GPU together in a co-processing model, simples
Interesting stuff.
Could there become a point where you could run a computer simply from a GPU instead of having both a CPU and GPU? Thinking of the future of course.
No, you'll always need both.
The CPU for fast serial tasks, and the GPU for parallel vector-type computations. They may well end up on the same piece of silicon, but there will always be a distrinction between the CPU-like and a GPU-like part.
The "holy grail" would be a compiler which can analyse user code, and efficiently determine which portions should be sent to what bit of hardware. This is a long long way away though, a long way behind the hardware. As it stands today, it takes a huge amount of skill to manually specify what should be sent to what device.