alt Hacker NewsBut do processors actually offload any CPU opcodes to their GPU? That could be quite useful if it can be used to improve execution speed.
But do processors actually offload any CPU opcodes to their GPU? That could be quite useful if it can be used to improve execution speed.
No, but if you are guaranteed to have a GPU or NPU packaged together it becomes like the SPUs in the Cell processor - you can’t offload instructions (unless you use a trap mechanism to a subroutine) but you can have code that hides the setup, the different ISA, and the result retrieval, behind an API call.