Can GPUs evolve to replace a CPU?

If you want to beat someone up for crowding an already well answered Question with an A2A, here she is: Anusha Sridharan Trying to replace a CPU with a GPU is literally like replacing Nigella Lawson with a cement mixer. They're both MIXING stuff, ... read more

If you want to beat someone up for crowding an already well answered Question with an A2A, here she is: Anusha Sridharan Trying to replace a CPU with a GPU is literally like replacing Nigella Lawson with a cement mixer. read more

GPUs are specialized devices that happen to do certain things (i.e., parallel processing) well enough to make them a good candidate for offloading particular tasks from the CPU. They are not, however, a replacement of the CPU, but they do evince a growing interest in processor architecture rather than wholesale reliance on Moore’s Law as a means to drive performance gains. read more