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Old June 3rd, 2003   #15 (permalink)
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Not exactly. The GPU would still be used strictly for graphics calculations only. There's no point in giving a GPU instructions for doing anything other than graphics-related calculations, in fact I think it should be avoided to force programmers to stick to using the CPU for those calculations. However, with more ideas being thought up for graphics rendering the GPU will eventually become some kind of RISC style GPU. Who knows though, it also depends on how far the line between the APIs and the cards stretch.
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