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Originally Posted by pantherx12
No, it's on the same silicon man, there's no latency between the communication of CPU-GPU ( or very little)
It does have benefits.
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But you add it back by longer traces to memory. The benefits are mostly matters of convenience, marketing and packaging, not any performance benefits noticeable to end user. It makes sense from a business standpoint and may eventually lead to performance gains. I'm not arguing that. What I am arguing is that what is currently using these APUs is not hardware based, as in transparent to the OS. They are software based, just like CUDA and Stream. To use the APUs, the program must be specifically written to take advantage of them. Nothing changes that fact.
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Originally Posted by Thatguy
Imagine the power of GPU with the programming front end of x86 or x87, which are widely supported instructions in compilers right now.
Thats where this is headed, INT + GPU the FPU is on borrowed time and thats likely why they shared it.
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I don't see it happening any time soon.
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Originally Posted by cadaveca
You cna thanks nVidia for that. Had they actually adopted DX9 properly, and DX10, all the needed software would be part of the OS now. But due to them doing thier own thing, we the consumer got screwed.
I don't know why you even care if it uses software. All computing does....PC's are useless without software.
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I care only when people claim it's hardware based, when it isn't.
And I don't buy the nV argument either.