CPUs vs GPUs As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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997 words · ~4 min read
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the cine quinone of any gaming PC these days is the graphics card I mean there's
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plenty of other cool components that you can throw in your rig but nothing quite
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matches the experience of unboxing and
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slotting in a new GPU to turn a
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run-ofthe-mill computer into a gaming battle station but hold on a minute have
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you ever wondered why we need a separate
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GPU at all I mean instead of the whole PCI Express card Paradigm why haven't we
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seen something like a dual CPU board where you can tell your computer to use
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one CPU for CPU things and then the other CPU can be just for graphics I
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mean are those big clunky cards really
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necessary great question on the surface
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CPUs and gpus appear to be very similar
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they are both silicon based microprocessors mounted to a PCB with
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heat sinks attached to them but when you look at their microarchitecture they
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have some fundamental differences that make them suited for different roles
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inside your PC think of it like this many people go around carrying Swiss
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Army knives everywhere they go because they're very useful multi-purpose tools
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they can cut things they can open wine bottles and even pick last night's
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broccoli out of your teeth but suppose you're unlucky enough to need an
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operation because you met with an unfortunate land party Act accident you
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probably don't want the surgeon just flicking open a Swiss army knife and
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going to town instead he or she will use a surgical knife or even a laser cutter
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they can't do all the things a Swiss army knife can but they're specialized
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devices that can do one thing very very
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well similarly your computer's main CPU
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is good at doing lots of different things quickly modern PCS are very
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general purpose machines that can do you know spreadsheets or write horrible
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fanfiction or illustrate aforementioned horrible fanfiction make Skype calls
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listening to deeply embarrassing music play games edit audio video the list
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goes on because of this your CPU needs to be able to handle lots of random and
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diverse instructions efficiently so that
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you can multitask without wanting to pull your hair out gpus however are
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really only there for one Purpose with
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an asterisk to render Graphics which
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involves doing millions of very similar
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calculations at the same time in parallel because of this gpus are
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focused more on Raw throughput than a CPU which is designed to be much more
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versatile and and balance all these different workloads like a waiter with
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you know 18 plates stacked up on top of each other GPU architecture usually
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features lots and lots of identical
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compute units that deal with solving the similar mathematical functions that
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determine how a bullets trajectory or waving bra Blades of grass or whatever
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show up on your screen in fact the
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highly parallelized nature of a GPU has
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led to a growth in popularity of general
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purpose Computing on graphics cards as well commonly known as
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gpgpu certain applications aside from
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games this is where the asterisk comes in can take advantage of higher end gpus
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things like Bitcoin mining or Stanford universi folding at home project which
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calculates the way that proteins fold for disease research both of these
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require the type of heavy number crunching that gpus excel at but while
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gpus are finding uses other than just gaming you probably won't want to try
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and run your operating system on a graphics card as the differences between
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your GPU and CPU are still very significant so don't expect the idea of
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using a separate graphics card to go away anytime soon and after all there's
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nothing quite like showing off your high-end card through the side panel
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window to be the Envy of all your friends without having to hide it under
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a CPU heat sink speaking of hiding I'm
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