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Re:AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review by arithma on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:27PM (#17754069)
How many cores must a CPU have until it's competitive with GPUs? Those beasts could pretty well open the hell-gates to fully interactive raytracing soon, or not so much? Of course am not expecting THIS processor to be competitive, but with the interest in raytracing, things might get interesting if this trend of more CPU cores keep on piling up.
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Re:AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review by Baal on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:24AM (#17756101)
Not a chance. By the time you get there, GPUs would do it (much) faster. Not to mention that GPUs are likely going to get specialized cores for raytracing (see RTX).
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