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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by KirinDave on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:32AM (#12885801)
I'm... confused why you'd say this. It's simply true: NVIDIA's consistently ahead on these tasks on performance/energy cost metric.

You can do most any computation on any GPU with the right SDK support (and of course, the CPU hasn't gone anywhere). It's just fantastically less efficient.

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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by TD-Linux on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:44AM (#12885865)
It really isn't true - AMD cards utterly crushed nVidia ones during the heydey of mining: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153467-amd-destroys-nvi...
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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by andromeduck on Sunday November 06, 2016 @12:09PM (#12886008)
GPU mining is only one of a multitude of GPGPU applications right now and it really isn't even growing.
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