clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> 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...

Thanks in advance.

Shouyang

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