Question about cpu's

[scobie56]

This may seem a bit stupid or pointless but gpu's these days have upto a few thousand cores but how comes cpu's haven't hit this stage and will they ever hit That stage

[Aytex]

Because "science"

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Because "science"

I believe GPU's have thousands of far less powerful cores that help in rendering an entire image at once, where a CPU has far less more powerful cores.

[dragoon20005]

good question

 

but i believe it because of the manufacturing process

[niofalpha]

Because OS support, lack of a reason, e.t.c.

Plus each CPU core is MUCH more powerful than each GPU core...

[GDRRiley]

This may seem a bit stupid or pointless but gpu's these days have upto a few thousand cores but how comes cpu's haven't hit this stage and will they ever hit That stage

because of the architecture and  GPU cores are a lot less powerful but are designed for a different role.

[The Official Czex]

Why coprocess when you can process?

[Glenwing]

This may seem a bit stupid or pointless but gpu's these days have upto a few thousand cores but how comes cpu's haven't hit this stage and will they ever hit That stage

They're designed for different purposes, it's not that CPUs are "behind". GPUs have loads of really little cores, CPUs have a few powerful and versatile ones. Each one is better for different types of tasks.

[the ginger gamer]

Not sure but i believe it has to do with the how it is made, maybe something to do with the die. 

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

Basically GPUs are made for processes which can be parallelized very well, which means that they can be split up into a lot of smaller tasks that can run simultaneously. CPUs in contrast are made for task which are more serial, which means that they can't be split up into lots of smaller parts very well. Which is why CPUs have very few, but powerful cores, whereas GPUs have a ton of weak cores.