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Re:The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market... by jhj on Sunday February 26, 2017 @03:10PM (#13739524)
The "3,854 cores" versus "28 cores" is dubious as always. 3,854 I think counts just the individual fp32 ALUs; a true similar comparison would be number of warp schedulers or maximum number of warps resident at once, or even just SM count (which share a cache).

Apples to oranges (a super-hyperthreaded 1024/2048-bit wide vector machine with minimal cache to a minimally hyperthreaded 128/256-bit wide vector machine with lots of cache).

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Re:The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market... by astrodust on Sunday February 26, 2017 @08:19PM (#13741158)
Apples to oranges? It's more like how a hundred thousand squirrels can't write a novel no matter how long they're given but one person can given a few months.

Not all compute devices are equivalent and "core" vs. "core" is a totally absurd comparison.

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