anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on July 29, 2012 2:25 am wrote:
> hobold (hobold.delete@this.vectorizer.org) on July 27, 2012 11:53 am
> wrote:
[...]
> > Do not rely
> CPUs maintaining the extent of this relative advantage over
> > GPUs. GPUs
> can still harvest a few fruits that aren't exactly low hanging, but
> > well
> in reach. CPUs have a hard time even only touching more fruit with merely
> >
> the tips of their outstretched metaphorical fingers.
>
> I would rely on CPUs
> maintaining a similar magnitude of advantage. The advantage is not there
> primarily because GPU companies were unaware of them [...]

Perhaps not primarily because of unawareness. But some nice fundamental improvements are still under way, because they had to be invented/discovered first, before they could be refined and implemented. Nothing revolutionary, perhaps, but the acme of evolution is always the sum of many small steps.

The step size and step frequency is still a little higher on the GPU side.