Afaik, gpu cores a very stripped down cpu cores that do basic math, but what sort of math can cpus do that gpus can’t

I’m talking, cpu core vs Tensor/Cuda cores.

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    1 year ago

    what sort of math can cpus do that gpus can’t

    that’s really restricting the problem space. Obviously (?) math wise it’s the same thing: both of them can flip bits and arrange this bit flipping in ways useful for mathematics.

    But CPUs are not just math. They always had I/O, almost always had interrupts, for many decades now they had protection rings and virtualization is now really common (Intel/AMD released support in 2005/2006). These are all supported in the instruction set.