Re:Why Apple and Google are struggling to design simple soft...
by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:07AM
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Moore's law is still alive on GPUs, which are developing at ludicrous speed.
Of course most Office applications don't need a GPU, and all the bloat in modern operating systems doesn't help create an impression of speed on the desktop.
More the opposite - if you're saving to the cloud, it's always going to feel much slower and clunkier than saving to a local disk.
But creative and scientific applications - including AI - always need all the cycles available and then some. There are apps that could sink a 1000X CPU speed bump without blinking. They'll become more practical as they move to GPUs, but there's a significant extra cost in coding for not-really-standard GPU families than for a generic mostly-standard CPU range.
Of course most Office applications don't need a GPU, and all the bloat in modern operating systems doesn't help create an impression of speed on the desktop.
More the opposite - if you're saving to the cloud, it's always going to feel much slower and clunkier than saving to a local disk.
But creative and scientific applications - including AI - always need all the cycles available and then some. There are apps that could sink a 1000X CPU speed bump without blinking. They'll become more practical as they move to GPUs, but there's a significant extra cost in coding for not-really-standard GPU families than for a generic mostly-standard CPU range.