… By 2008 it was talking about on-chip GPUs , although it took a while to happen: it announced the "Llano" APU chips in 2010 , and they launched the next year – the same time as Intel's GPUs moved onto the CPU die, with the second generation of Core i-series chips, codenamed Sandy Bridge . …
… We do think it's important to understand that, at higher resolutions and with more eye candy turned on, CPU performance is much less likely to be a bottleneck. This is especially relevant if you aren't rocking a 4090-class GPU or better, and you don't plan to upgrade your GPU in the future. …
… GPU clusters and AI accelerators don't operate on the old rules. …
… This system has 25,600 CPUs and 400 GPUs, to reproduce the original collision and analyze the results, and produces about a petabyte a day. …