Comment Re:GPUs are dying - the cycle continues (Score 1) 176
CPUs are infamously bad at processing floating point operations, this is the reason that dedicated GPUs were invented in the first place. A graphics processor like the GTX 285 has 240 stream processors that are manufactured for processing floating point numbers but really bad at integer operations. A CPU like a Core 2 Quad has four cores that are really good at integer operations but requires CPU extensions like SSE to do high performance floating point operations.
Both Intel and AMD are currently manufacturing CPU/GPU hybrids that would kind of balance both these worlds: Larrabee a GPU-like addon, AMD Fusion an on-chip solution. We'll see what kind of API hell they will bring.