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[Mark Filipak]

On 03/04/2020 05:02 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 3/4/20, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 03/04/2020 04:51 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>> On 3/4/20, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 03/04/2020 11:14 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>>> On 3/4/20, Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/4/2020 7:39 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>>>>> Not 100% correct.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which part? (And does it need to be, anyway? Analogies often aren't but
>>>>>> still get the points across.)
>>>>>
>>>>> CPU and GPU...
>>>>
>>>> Hi, and thanks for the criticism,
>>>>
>>>> I don't mention GPUs because I don't know whether CUDA cores, for
>>>> example, are actually processors. These days marketing trumps
>>>> engineering and there's a lot of notions that can't be taken seriously.
>>>> Just because a thing has 'core' in its name, is it really a core?
>>>
>>> You lost me right there after mentioning CUDA cores.
>>
>> Oh, sorry Paul.
>>
>> When I question whether CUDA cores are processors, I'm questioning what
>> CUDA is at a rather deep level. If a CUDA core is not actually a core,
>> it can still be a processor, right? But if I go further and say that I
>> don't know whether CUDA is even a processor, I'm making a very basic
>> statement that I don't know anything about CUDA, eh?
>>
>> Regarding whether "CUDA core" is simply a marketing label, I'm just
>> being snarky.
>>
>> Do you understand, or is your difficulty that you don't know/haven't
>> heard of CUDA cores?
>>
> 
> There are GPUs that are not CUDA last time I checked facts.

Okay, that's true, and so ... (?)