Intel courting Microsoft/Sony for Larrabe (GPU) deal.

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Deneidez said:

alephnull said:

Deneidez said:
If you have a car and a boat, those will performance much better than a boatcar. Similarly 3xCELLs was like nothing compared to RSX graphical abilities.

1) not necessarily true, just look at the performance gain achieved by amd when the moved the memory controller on chip in their days of obvious superiority.

Ability to perform at what? Maybe I want to drive through the everglades, boatcar would win hands down.

Anyways the modern GPUs are all turning into boatcars anyhow.

Except GPU:s aren't sacrificing their graphical performance for general-purpose computing. Their graphical performance is just wrapped for general-purpose computing.

From my understanding of the literature (not fantastic) there is a tradeoff, however the flexibility is considered worth it. I am not an EE, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, however I do work with some EE guys who hold this opinion. It makes sense to me, invariants simplify problems.