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		CamperBob2 on June 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FPGA and Xeon combined in one socket What if the Intel FPGA did have access to the same resources as a GPU? This isn't inconceivable, it's in the same socket as the CPU. An FPGA that competes with a modern GPU would probably cost in the neighborhood of US $50,000 per chip.

astrodust on June 24, 2014 [–]

In a general sense, yes, but not in very narrow problems where the GPU would stumble and flail because of architectural limitations that would prevent it from fully applying itself.

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