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[Paul B Mahol]

On 3/4/20, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/04/2020 04:51 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 3/4/20, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2020 11:14 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>> On 3/4/20, Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 3/4/2020 7:39 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>>>> Not 100% correct.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which part? (And does it need to be, anyway? Analogies often aren't but
>>>>> still get the points across.)
>>>>
>>>> CPU and GPU...
>>>
>>> Hi, and thanks for the criticism,
>>>
>>> I don't mention GPUs because I don't know whether CUDA cores, for
>>> example, are actually processors. These days marketing trumps
>>> engineering and there's a lot of notions that can't be taken seriously.
>>> Just because a thing has 'core' in its name, is it really a core?
>>
>> You lost me right there after mentioning CUDA cores.
>
> Oh, sorry Paul.
>
> When I question whether CUDA cores are processors, I'm questioning what
> CUDA is at a rather deep level. If a CUDA core is not actually a core,
> it can still be a processor, right? But if I go further and say that I
> don't know whether CUDA is even a processor, I'm making a very basic
> statement that I don't know anything about CUDA, eh?
>
> Regarding whether "CUDA core" is simply a marketing label, I'm just
> being snarky.
>
> Do you understand, or is your difficulty that you don't know/haven't
> heard of CUDA cores?
>

There are GPUs that are not CUDA last time I checked facts.