200 cores? not!

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Narg 3rd Dec 2009

CobraA1, your example of 200+ cores from ATI/nVidia is incorrect. Their products have 200 "Stream" paths or "Cores", which are not the same as the CISC cores of a pure CPU. The video "cores" are limited instruction data manipulation paths that have very limited ability to handle all data types. The more complex the data gets, the lower the output of these GPU chips goes, expodentially. Calculate what they can do and they do wonders. But they don't work with everything. I'm amazed at why people don't understand that simple concept.

Now, a 48 core general CPU, if used properly can do everything, and do it powerfully. But it will never be able to do single purpose tasks that a single purpose process will be able to do. DUH!