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Am 23.06.2017 um 18:15 schrieb muyu:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
>> Am 06.01.2016 um 06:03 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>>> What is the benefit of having GPU rendering rather than just going to
>>> the store and buying yourself a faster processor? Are GPUs inherently
>>> better at this stuff than CPUs?
>>
>> The benefit is that GPUs can give you far more floating point operations
>> per buck and second than CPUs.
>>
>> The drawback is, that's only true as long as you're performing the same
>> sequence of operations on a vast number of data points in parallel. As
>> soon as any data points need special treatment, the other data points'
>> computations need to be stalled. So programs need to be written in a
>> matter that minimizes such special handling.
>
> I am wondering GPU-support for Pov-ray is coming?
>
> Now we are having GPU stronger and stronger...
Ah, the good old "are we there yet?" question.
No, we still aren't.
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