Comments by "IIIRattleHeadIII" (@badass6300) on "Low Level" channel.

Also, a big factor is that many programs have linear logic. Amdahl's law shows how well a task scales with multiple cores depending on how parallel it is. For 50% parallel tasks above 4 cores is pointless. For 75% parallel above 16 cores is pointless. You just don't gain performance and that is baked in the logic of the task. Many cores are great when doing multiple of the same task without caring which task is completed first.
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@freedom_aint_free Basically the more specific an integrated circuit is the more efficient it is at doing that set of specific tasks or singular task. So the most ASIC will be super fast at one thing, but won't be able to anything else. The opposite are FPGA(Field-Programmable Gate Array), which is even more general purpose than the CPUs we have. You can make it do almost everything.
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@pokemettilp8872 RISC-V is the most interesting.
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@mewsermeow8683 if the gpu has the instructions for it, but 99% of the time yes.
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My best friend became a software developer after 10th grade, not even finishing high school. Three more friends became software developers right after high school. Three friends became a system administrator, networking engineer and telecomunication specialists while in high school. Another friend became a mechanical engineer 1 year after high school... How? They started specializing in their fields from the age of 11-14 all the way up to 18-20, by self-educating through books, going to private courses and academies(self-education was 80% of it). Edit: The question becomes, why do we still go to current schools and universities? They produce useless people in 12-20 years, trust me I'm the fool that went and got that CS degree and I've learnt almost nothing in my unviersity and we have a more advanced curriculum than in the west.
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And each core(CU/SM) is very small too since it's very simple.
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Yeah, my best friend became a software developer after 10th grade, not even finishing high school. Three more friends became software developers right after high school. Three friends became a system administrator, networking engineer and telecomunication specialists while in high school. Another friend became a mechanical engineer 1 year after high school... How? They started specializing in their fields from the age of 11-14 all the way up to 18-20, by self-educating through books, going to private courses and academies(self-education was 80% of it).
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@hjups True, but GPU architecture is getting close to CPU architecture with the passing generations. AMD GPUs since RDNA1 have hardware schedulers and might get OoO Execution in the future. Then again with chiplets they might get a whole CPU to themselves for certain tasks. Or vice-versa, integrated GPUs might get good, or both.
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@PyromancerRift Zen didn't shake anything. It just forced intel to release the proper amount of cores. We are talking about concepts here, the concept of linear, dependent logic. These concepts don't change, just like the 2 + 2 is always 4.
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@latorcognitio9369 Everything since the Penium-Pro has used micro-ops to make the all of the CISC x86 instructions from the decoders into RISC instructions and the Pentium-Pro was released at the same time as the K6. So that's pretty normal.
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@professionalbreather62 It absolutely will, my best friend also started 8-9 years old. The question is why do we still go to the current schools and unviersities? In 12-20 years they produce useless people...
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@noahqyain7311 I guarantee you there are, pretty much everyone I know that hasn't self-educated with a CS degree is out of a software job...
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@utubekullanicisi true, that's what I said in the end of my comment.
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@brianwesley28 Rendering is the best case scenario and based on the architecture it's 98-99.9% parallel.
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@KaiserTom Clock speeds are also affected by the parasitic capacty of the transistor itself.
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Reupload?
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@Joker22593 Thanks!
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@alexolivers9476 Yeah, AMD wanted all the floating point operations to be done on the iGPU, that's why they developed the hUMA controller and Bulldozer/Piledriver/Steamroller CPUs/APUs have weak FPUs... guess what happened... Developers didn't develop for it and they still kept using the CPU and its FPU for floating point tasks. Now we have AVX 512... horrible, power hungry, space taking instruction...
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@alexolivers9476 yeah, we have GPUs for that.
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