Hi, The major differences are that while a CPU has one processing core (or today, two processing core), any older GPU has quite a lot of processing units that run at a very low speed but are specialized in certain areas, this way the load is really divided. Also just a comment, several labs are starting to use GPU to do MAJOR calculations specially because of their high paralel processing oportunity.
And for instance Shader calculation is a very expensive method, but for instance most of the more modern cards have several shader processing units in which their architecture and also their basic functionality are optimized to do this shader calculation that would make a CPU cry. The major differences Katrina between the two is that a CPU is a generic processing unit, which contain a lot of commands and functionalities, while a GPU contains quite a lot of VERY specialized processing cores. This differences is what makes it be really faster than using Software rendering, specially since some with Software rendering you would need to emulate some features that are basic nowadays with the GPUs, and do so much calculations in a serial way, while trying to maintain a decent 3d output. So again i say, the most important feature of the GPUs is their paralel programming. 2010/6/18 Katrina Payne <fullmetalhar...@nimhlabs.com> > That is good, I never asked for a lecture anywhere. > > If anything, I asked for some terms I could use in Google. A mantra or some > such concept I guess. > > I also asked for text books and white papers. > > No where did I ask for a lecture. > > I even flat out stated many times that what you were to explain would be > too > long for an email to fit, so the idea that I would be asking for a lecture > is > ludicrous. > > Now then, rather than saying this obvious statement, how about you just > tell > me some google search mantra to use (as really, my mind is blank for any > keywords I could use that would get me anything meaningful), a set of text > books, or maybe a white paper? > > I do not appreciate feeling like I am being talked down to. > > It is also statements like this below, that make me think you are > disregarding > my suggestions, as, if you were not disregarding them, you would have just > gave those text book titles, or some keywords to search with, or at the > very > least a basic white paper. > > Had it been some standard of programming, I could attack ISO, RFC, Working > Draft, Recommendation, Best Practices, Primer or Howto to something like > "GPU". > > In this case, I do not expect any of those to work. > > Now then, please, stop talking to me like a fool, and blantantly > disregarding > stuff I have asked for, and brushing me off as somebody expecting a lecture > over > a mailing list--or some such retarded notion you have gotten into what I am > asking for here. > > Thank you > > ~Katrina > > On Friday, June 18, 2010 05:58:37 am Bob Somers wrote: > > Katrina, I'm not giving lectures on computer graphics here. Google has > > all the information you asked for. If you'd like, I can also recommend > > some graphics textbooks which would clear things up > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
