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AMD's upcoming generation of graphics cards, dubbed Volcanic Islands, is to include CPU cores on-chip.
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FRONTPAGE AMD Volcanic Islands to Implement CPU Cores
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pfffttt keep dreamin!
scary thing is nvidia is doing it too hopefully one of them can figure it out!
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I thought ARM chips had trouble with something, Windows, X86, X64, something, what was it? It was the reason Microsoft had to make Windows 8 RT for tablets that cannot run 'legacy' (i.e. normal desktop) apps. What would stop the same issue from occuring here?
And what is the point of having CPU cores on a GPU? I missed that about this article.
And what is the point of having CPU cores on a GPU? I missed that about this article.
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Theres alot of potential uses for a multi purpose core on something as complex as these modern GPUs. Its also not important for them to be able to run standard code as they are likely not intended to be used for anything outside of the GPU. They are being labled as "serial processors" I imagine that these are for internal scene management/iterative type of code while the 4k parallel processors spend all of there time pumping out pixels.
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In this scenario, they'd probably be linked way below the OS level where it's less of an issue.
See Bobnova's post below.
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ARM chips can't run standard Windows because they are not x86 chips. Windows runs exclusively within an x86 environment. But that is not a problem here and those cores could be anything.
As for the uses of a CPU-type multi-purpose processor on GPU, they are numerous as others have stated, but will also tremendously streamline programming and increase performance of GPGPU applications (general purpose computation on GPU).
These new GPUs will shine in everything from gaming to computing programs like Folding@Home, and might even take a more important place in HPC and servers.
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Absolutely! It just takes a little more time to write and publish an article.
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CPU cores, and twice as powerful as the Tahiti core to boot!
I'd like to see AMD use those CPU cores to improve microstuttering and frame pacing in Crossfire setups.
And I'd like to see some modders set up CPU Physx on the GPU cores...
I'd like to see AMD use those CPU cores to improve microstuttering and frame pacing in Crossfire setups.
And I'd like to see some modders set up CPU Physx on the GPU cores...
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Oh... then the normal CPU would be doing what... controlling AI?
Why doesn't ARM make desktop CPUs if RISC is so much 'fresher'
What does 64 bit windows do differently, then?
Does the CPU/GPU combo chip have to interact with the normal main CPU at all? Pretty interesting stuff it just intriuiges me is all.
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See Bobnova's post below.
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