Future of 3d Graphics

zymano writes "Extremetech has this nice article on the future of 3d graphics. The article also mentions that graphic card gpus can be used for non-traditional powerful processing like physics. A quote from the article, "GPU can be from 10 to 100 times faster than a Pentium 4 and Scientific computations such as linear algebra, Fast Fourier Transforms, and partial differential equations can benefit". My question - If these cards are getting so powerful at computations then why do we need a Intel/AMD processor at all? Just make a graphics card with more transistors and drop the traditional processor..."

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You are really an idiot.

[Jerk City Troll]

If these cards are getting so powerful at computations then why do we need a Intel/AMD processor at all? Just make a graphics card with more transistors and drop the traditional processor...

Do you understand why these so-called GPUs are so fast at doing graphics and mathetmatics geared towards graphics? Because they are Graphics Processing Units. They are not general computers. They are designed to do one thing and one thing really well: the math for 3D graphics. They would be terribly slow at general computing because general computing is not all 3D graphics. Generalized computers, such as your Pentium, are good at doing a lot of things but nothing in particular all that well. Sheesh, you'd think someone who reads /. would know better... or not.

sniffing glue?

[LtBurrito]

If crazy glue is so strong, why don't they just make everything out of it?