I'm struggling to see how they'll use this as the "building block" for a videocard. The reference design here is a general purpose processing unit that would be rather ineffective at doing graphics. GPUs are special purpose and a lot less flexible, generally speaking they're Simple Instruction, Multiple Data processors. While a CPU could do the job of a GPU, it wouldn't do it as efficiently. Similarly a GPU wouldn't have the flexibility to do the work of a CPU.
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I'm struggling to see how they'll use this as the "building block" for a videocard. The reference design here is a general purpose processing unit that would be rather ineffective at doing graphics. GPUs are special purpose and a lot less flexible, generally speaking they're Simple Instruction, Multiple Data processors. While a CPU could do the job of a GPU, it wouldn't do it as efficiently. Similarly a GPU wouldn't have the flexibility to do the work of a CPU.