27 Mar
2009
27 Mar
'09
2 a.m.
Hi Joel,
Gpu are limited by the speed of the bus and you'll end up spending too much time sending data back and forth.
To measure the convenience of using the GPU against the slow down of the bus bottleneck depends on what you offload to the GPU. Stating that *G*raphics algorithms, among all things, wouldn't gain much from using the *Graphics*PU can't make sense IMO. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any reason to have a GPU to begin with (or GPUs would still be just dumb renderers as they used to be in the distant past) FWIW you can google for the term GPGPU to see how the field of computing in the GPU is advancing. Best -- Fernando Cacciola SciSoft Consulting, Founder http://www.scisoft-consulting.com