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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How long until CPUs and GPUs just merge into one thing

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago

Probably never. Those 2048 cores are all separate threads. GPUs work with a cluster of cores all following a single thread of execution.

MIMD Vs SIMD.

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not OP, but I doubt that's what he meant. An APU still has a CPU and a GPU on it as separate things.