By: Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com), November 18, 2012 12:52 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Jim F (toyotabedzrock.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 18, 2012 9:45 am wrote:
> If Intel attached multiple avx2 simds, just the integer crunching part, to a basic core it could
> eliminate a large part of the gpu. And then we would really have heterogeneous computing.
That's what they tried with the origin Larrabee and it didn't work out very well. Graphics workloads are too specialized to be dealt effectively with general purpose hardware.
> If Intel attached multiple avx2 simds, just the integer crunching part, to a basic core it could
> eliminate a large part of the gpu. And then we would really have heterogeneous computing.
That's what they tried with the origin Larrabee and it didn't work out very well. Graphics workloads are too specialized to be dealt effectively with general purpose hardware.
