Talk:Nvidia Tesla

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What are the advantages to using Tesla over the 8800 and Quadro lines? The article only mentions graphics capability is not included -- so why pay extra?

Basically the Tesla is a co-processor. It's designed to crunch a lot of numbers. The reason why you don't have the CPU do this is because the CPU is already busy with menial tasks, not to mention CPUs are slower in raw power than GPUs. You also don't want the GPU doing this because it could be doing other things and it's designed to work on graphics rather than large scale calculations. So just tweak with the BIOS or instruction set a little on a already fast performing part, and you have something like a CPU, only much faster. -- XenoL-Type 18:29 23 February, 2008 UTC —Preceding comment was added at 02:29, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

It's not that simple, efficient general purpose computing on a gpu requires an architecture redesign. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vlad Dracula (talk • contribs) 00:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

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