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Re:Ask HN: Why we can't our CPU be as powerful as our GPUs by drivers99 on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @07:08PM (#5598557)
I think it's also that there are so many cores. For example, there are 768 CUDA cores on a GTX 650 Ti.
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Re:Ask HN: Why we can't our CPU be as powerful as our GPUs by chas on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @02:34AM (#5600195)
Right, they can fit so many cores on a chip because they are very optimized for one type of work (streaming vector math) and don't have things like branch-predictors that would make them good for general purpose work.
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