alt Hacker NewsAren't we at petaflops now with GPUs? 1M or even 1G points should be no issue if it renders to a framebuffer and doesn't go through mountains af JS framework rubbish followed by mountains of GTK/Qt/.NET rubbish.
Aren't we at petaflops now with GPUs? 1M or even 1G points should be no issue if it renders to a framebuffer and doesn't go through mountains af JS framework rubbish followed by mountains of GTK/Qt/.NET rubbish.
Not true. Fill rate and memory speed is still a huge bottleneck. The issue is not “rubbish” but memory speed. It is almost always memory speed, cache, ram, disk etc.
There is this misconception that if one uses js or c# to tell a gpu what to do it is somehow slower than rust. It only is if you crunching data but moving memory to the gpu and telling gpu to crunch is virtually identical.