You know, it usually annoys me how unknowledgable a lot of posters on this forum can be. But every now and then, you get a gem like this and it's all worth it.
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Will graphics cards replace PCs?
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you are literally talking about what they were attempting to do with the cell processor lol.
This is probably a troll thread, but I'll give it a serious answer. No.
A GPU is only one component of a modern PC. You'd still need a CPU, motherboard, RAM, PSU, storage, etc. to actually make a functioning PC.
A GPU is only one component of a modern PC. You'd still need a CPU, motherboard, RAM, PSU, storage, etc. to actually make a functioning PC.
Crazy Ken was living in 2030, while failing to notice that the rest of us where still living in 2006. ;(
yup lmao when you said that i was like wait that def sounds like cell. lmao i actually found an academic paper where some people were trying to use it to do ray tracing lmao. it definitely was very very ambitious maybe one day it gets revisited but there is a reason why GPUs are great at what they do which is specialized work vs a CPU which is general.
This was used in a twitter response by Jez yesterday to those saying it makes next gen console obsolete at that price point.
Lmao, imagine a time where i have to buy a CPU to put inside my graphics card
Truly soviet russia thinking right there
Truly soviet russia thinking right there
You realize the average person is a lot more interested in price than anything right? A $169 chromebook works for them. Why on earth would they want super expensive hot graphics cards to be their PC's?
This is what I think, I hope the op is getting at a more unified system where cpu, mobo,and gpu are together. The rest of the components can be added. It's not as crazy as some are making it to be.
I get the feeling what OP is actually asking is more along the lines of if APU/SOC type designs could become the default or dominant paradigm instead of the discrete/modular setups we are used to in computing?
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Yeah, the technology just wasn't there yet, maybe it never will, but it made sense in theory.
Right. Not only are GPUs slower for certain tasks, they require a lot more energy to do those tasks.
The very-very-very-layman explanation is that GPUs are setup so that most/all of their cores do the exact same instruction but fed different data, while on a CPU all of their cores can run independently (which is one of the reasons why 8+ core CPUs are the hot thing, yet GPUs already have hundreds of cores). This makes GPUs really good at things like 3D Matrix math since you can just feed all of the cores the rows and columns of the matrix and get them to all add, or all subtract, or all multiply, etc, at the same time. But if you only need one core for something, you waste all the others.
EDIT: Did not respond to the wrong post lol.
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No not at all. Sure the GPU are getting better and better with all the ML capabilities, ... . But they don't get better at tasks the CPU excels in. CPU is the brain of a computer, console, ... .
Then GPU as of now don't have SSD/HDD storage and rely on RAM. Which is great for the tasks needed. However RAM can't save data when electricity is gone. Meaning when you shut down the device the data in RAM is gone. That's a no go for a device.
Then GPU as of now don't have SSD/HDD storage and rely on RAM. Which is great for the tasks needed. However RAM can't save data when electricity is gone. Meaning when you shut down the device the data in RAM is gone. That's a no go for a device.
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This GPU jump is huge for 2 reasons:
1) 12nm down to 7nm
2) They actually decided to release high wattage cards for first-gen 7nm, whereas they previously would only release low wattage cards first gen and high wattage cards second gen
Don't expect much advancement past this gen any time soon. You really can't go any higher than a 350W card....that's pushing the limits. Now advancement is going to come down to extracurricular tech (e.g. DLSS).
Intel CPUs have stagnated because they've exhausted the potential of 14nm. We're due for a big jump and more incremental improvements over the next few years.
1) 12nm down to 7nm
2) They actually decided to release high wattage cards for first-gen 7nm, whereas they previously would only release low wattage cards first gen and high wattage cards second gen
Don't expect much advancement past this gen any time soon. You really can't go any higher than a 350W card....that's pushing the limits. Now advancement is going to come down to extracurricular tech (e.g. DLSS).
Intel CPUs have stagnated because they've exhausted the potential of 14nm. We're due for a big jump and more incremental improvements over the next few years.