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moozoo
12-26-09, 06:58 AM
Larrabee is an attempt to turn a CPU into a GPU.
What if Nvidia did the opposite?

See "Fermi could run an OS"
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15940/1/

But for real, ie take 4-8 SM's and beef them up with a large cache, smart prefetch , stack and other full CPU features.

How would it perform running a OS like linux vs an AMD or Intel CPU?

Merge this with a set of normal SM's 16+ to form an CPU+GPU combo.

The normal SM's would run the normal Fermi instruction set. The 4-8 CPU SM's an enhanced one.
K007
12-26-09, 07:04 PM
nvidia will get pwned if they try to go up against intel in the cpu market.
Viral
12-26-09, 07:21 PM
It's not x86, so no.
Ninja Prime
12-26-09, 08:16 PM
Doesnt really work that way, by the time you add enough stuff to make it function truly CPU-like you wouldn't really have enough space to have any major advantage over a CPU.
Lyme
01-01-10, 03:01 PM
Doesnt really work that way, by the time you add enough stuff to make it function truly CPU-like you wouldn't really have enough space to have any major advantage over a CPU.

By the time someone adds all the crap that intel does to their cpus, that would be the case, but who really needs 75 different versions of sse?