Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?
by Retric on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:41AM
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Yea, GPU's are a few nodes behind which means they will take longer to hit the same wall. Even the GTX 1080 Ti just hit 16nm.
Compare a 95 W (22nm) i7 2600k from January 2011 vs 65 W (14nm) Core i7-8706G from February 2018, that's over 7 years of progress for 30% lower power consumption and a fair speed boost.
That's what GPU's are facing starting now, though they can directly trade lower power consumption for more speed as they are embarrassingly parallel.
Compare a 95 W (22nm) i7 2600k from January 2011 vs 65 W (14nm) Core i7-8706G from February 2018, that's over 7 years of progress for 30% lower power consumption and a fair speed boost.
That's what GPU's are facing starting now, though they can directly trade lower power consumption for more speed as they are embarrassingly parallel.