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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by pjc50 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:05AM (#16428807)
If you can find an Nvidia GTX 1080, that has 2560 cores.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by monocasa on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:18AM (#16429195)
They're playing games with the term 'core'.

In CPU terms, a 1080 is 40 cores, each with a 64 way vector unit.

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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by Maybestring on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:58AM (#16429870)
I'm surprised they don't sell it as a 40 core, 64-dimensional processor.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by kale on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:40AM (#16428992)
Without branching (or with limited branching, last I checked it masked and re-ran instead). A core implies both instruction and data operations, rather than SIMD behavior.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by deepnotderp on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:51PM (#16431878)
Where "core" ~= vector lane
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