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What GPU vendors call cores aren't. It's like calling hair brush pins as hair brushes.

I think something should be called "core" if it can branch instruction stream. Predication doesn't count. A single core can run multiple instruction streams (GPUs, Intel Hyperthreading).




> What GPU vendors call cores aren't. It's like calling hair brush pins as hair brushes.

I agree. In the past I posted a decent (if I do say so myself) introduction to hyper threading and SIMT here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8245360

I simplified and just said "core" in this post because it was getting a bit long in the tooth already.




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