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The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit

by sebg on 10/2/25, 11:46 AM with 103 comments

  • by rob74 on 10/6/25, 1:51 AM

    The thought expressed in the title came to my mind when I saw Nvidia described as an "AI company" in the press recently...
  • by nomadygnt on 10/5/25, 11:43 PM

    This is cool! I love this kind of simulation GPU programming stuff. Reminds me of this awesome talk from Peter Whidden: https://youtu.be/Hju0H3NHxVI?si=V_UZugPSL9a8eHEM

    Not as technicial but similarly cool.

  • by Ocerge on 10/6/25, 1:37 AM

    This is awesome. It also brought back some anxiety from >10 years ago in college that reminds me that computer graphics and my brain do not agree whatsoever.
  • by Animats on 10/6/25, 2:48 AM

    Do most GPUs made for AI even have a graphical output buffer and a video output any more?
  • by astrea on 10/6/25, 6:00 AM

    Holy tangents, Batman! This whole post was a million interrelated topics woven into one semi-coherent textbook.
  • by bblb on 10/6/25, 4:50 AM

    Room for new competitors then? Surely Nvidia/AMD/Intel are not the only graphics vendors? Or is the tech too hard to even enter the market?
  • by cmxch on 10/6/25, 3:30 AM

    Then who actually delivers on that front aside from AMD? Intel does deliver but only on the low to mid range.
  • by eternityforest on 10/6/25, 10:40 PM

    I wonder if they'll ever start doing the graphics with AI.

    Could you render the scene in the simplest most efficient way possible, then train a special model that takes that picture, along with the coordinates of lights, depth maps, text descriptions of materials, etc, and adds detail?

  • by riknos314 on 10/6/25, 3:00 AM

    Naming may provide useful hints about some utility of a tool but naming does not bound the utility of a tool.
  • by gbolcer on 10/6/25, 3:10 PM

    They used to refer to it as GPGPU (general purpose) but they just shortened it maybe 10 years ago?
  • by _ache_ on 10/6/25, 3:57 PM

    What does Bechara means? DuckDuckGo doesn't help me much. "Poor thing" maybe?

    Anyway, I think you should change friends. Or study subjects. Either way.

    Btw, these look like parasites or worms under microscope.

  • by larrydag on 10/6/25, 3:22 PM

    Should change the name to Matrix Processing Units
  • by hollowonepl on 10/6/25, 6:48 AM

    Nice texture generator came out of this, with seems to be perfectly looped images! Well done!
  • by moomoo11 on 10/6/25, 2:19 AM

    Generator
  • by diegoperini on 10/6/25, 3:43 AM

    > And here are my clearly unimpressed “friends” >:(

    These friends don't get it!

  • by andunie on 10/6/25, 2:15 PM

    I read somewhere that CPUs are better at generating graphics than GPUs (although I imagine much slower). Is that true? Does that explain why GUI libraries like Egui are so much uglier than, for example, Iced?
  • by geldedus on 10/6/25, 11:10 AM

    Since when a name dictates function?
  • by rdsubhas on 10/10/25, 11:54 PM

    The G now stands for GenAI.