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To: taxcontrol

I just looked at Wiki and according to them GPU’s and FPGA’s in general have higher transistor counts than CPU’s. I wasn’t expecting that.


12 posted on 10/30/2012 10:39:59 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

GPU’s have lots of parallelism and on-chip memory, which makes for easy, fluffy gate counts.

FPGA’s either won’t use a large number of the gates on the die (they’ll be blown open during programming or simply ignored), or at best, the way FPGA’s implement a logic circuit can be non-optimal. That’s the trade-off with FPGA’s - you get field programmability (meaning you don’t need to design a custom chip and then get it fab’ed), but you give up optimal design criteria.


13 posted on 10/30/2012 11:43:24 AM PDT by NVDave
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