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What can a cpu core do that a gpu core can't do? (alien.top)
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Afaik, gpu cores a very stripped down cpu cores that do basic math, but what sort of math can cpus do that gpus can't

I'm talking, cpu core vs Tensor/Cuda cores.

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Basic GPU handles algorithms for graphics and outputs to a display. Latest GPUs have specialized instructions to handle mathematical algorithms for parallelization so the Host OS hits certain routines it executes those on the GPU getting usually 8 - 32X speedup on execution over the CPU for mathematical routines.