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A comment on AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech.

Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by whatever1 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:32PM (#25627397)
How fast can an FPGA be reprogrammed? If I close my FPGA accelerated machine learning training algorithm, and then open a PC game, would it be feasible to load the new gaming-oriented instructions in ~10-30" that a PC game takes to open?
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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by dewhelmed on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:36AM (#25628640)
What sort of gaming-related workload do you think an FPGA would be suitable for? I don't know much about the gaming world, but isn't the majority of the computational workload graphics-rendering related, in which case, the GPU architecture is the best candidate to iterate on?
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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by whatever1 on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:29AM (#25631034)
Not a game developer, but I believe that game mechanics, lighting and "AI" are all handled by the CPU.
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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by gh02t on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:54PM (#25627792)
Programming a bitstream onto the FPGA is relatively quick, it's perfectly feasible. The time consuming part is in development and synthesis.
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