> Well, two reasons come to my mind immediately. First, I'd be cool. Second, > the wattage you listed is the max wattage, not the idle or light load > wattage which would likely be used. Per processing element, GPUs use less > power, and you get more processing power per watt than a CPU under certain > loads.
i'd sure like a reference to a case where a system with a gpu draws less power than the same system without. it's not like you can turn the cpu off. > This concept could be taken as far as to bring all processing off > specialized areas for general purpose use, allowing potentially for an > internally distributed system with high regularity, fault tolerance, etc. > That's on the far end, but not to be totally discounted. please explain. how is a machine more of any of these things than a regular multi-core machine? - erik
