[QUOTE="ronvalencia"][QUOTE="04dcarraher"] Your totally off the ball, theres a reason why there is a cpu.... the cpu supplies and processes all the data needed from and to other components in the system. not the fact that you can use the gpu to compute data where still comes from the cpu.
04dcarraher
Your totally off the ball i.e. PS4 is not limited by DirectX. NVIDIA Kepler with TCC driver and AMD GCN with HSA driver are capable to generate it's own workloads.
AMD GCN with HSA is treated like a cut-down X86 CPU, but with very wide vector units.
like the gpu is going to grab data off the hdd or bluray and actually know what to do with it :lol: You still need the cpu to do almost all the tasks directing what goes where and how. fact is that your talking theoretical purposes that will never be used to that affect and replace a cpu's primary functions. I made my statement with the context of game's compute workloads not with managing a storage driver.
PS; One could port Minux (cutdown unix) on AMD GCN (includes interrupts instructions, low latency branch and scalar units, hardware to support C++ structures, X86 cache page size, context switching, page fault, support X86-64 address modes and pointers).
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