On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Emanuel Rumpf <[email protected]> wrote: > I still somehow wonder, how cheap low MHz Chips can outperform my > GHz PC system. The answer seems to be parallelism of computations, > which the GPUs (or DSPs) support better than CPUs. > This also means, that faster CPUs won't necessarily bring > the effect we are waiting for. > (To play many software effects/instruments in an acceptable time.)
GPUs do not run a general purpose OS. CPUs do (at least if you run Linux, Windows, BSD, OSX, Solaris etc). HUGE difference. This plays a major role. The overall architecture of a GPU is very, very different from a CPU, making the code that runs on them more deterministic. GPUs also do not service interrupts from every device on your system. > Anyway. If the PCs can't do it, someone has to create a new > system, or extend the PC anyway to make it capable. not all PCs can do it. but its simply not true that "PCs can't do it". _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
