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Re:Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms by jhallenworld on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:00PM (#21161836)
I also disagree. The main problem is much simpler: they cost too much for fundamental reasons. The die-size for an FPGA that would have equivalent power of an Intel CPU or Nvidia GPU would be huge and expensive.
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Re:Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms by Traster on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:11PM (#21162338)
That's simply not right. The FPGA in your NIC is much more powerful for packet processing than any CPU or GPU. Yes, the CPU is better at being a CPU- but that's just a matter of using the right tool for the job.
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Re:Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms by aseipp on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:21PM (#21163004)
What does "equivalent power" even mean? It's completely useless without any qualifiers or specific metrics/goals.

My Nvidia GPU also doesn't run x86 programs at the speed of my desktop, but I never expected it to. It's true in the vacuous sense only.

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Re:Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms by jhallenworld on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:58PM (#21163716)
They are all Turing machines, all that matters is can I run my algorithm at higher performance than equivalent priced conventional solutions.
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Re:Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms by rowanG077 on Saturday October 05, 2019 @10:54AM (#21165840)
This is incredibly naive. There are algorithm where CPU but GPU easily. There are also algorithms where a GPU beats a CPU easily. There are also algorithms where an FPGA beats a GPU and a CPU easily. You simply can't say x is better then y in general. They all have their own domains.
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