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by vmchale 2384 days ago
> in somewhat similar use-cases. I.e. if you have an embarrassingly parallel compute-bound algorithm then it might make sense to offload it to FPGAs to gain performance and power efficiency.

Also concurrency! GPU is SIMD; FPGA need not be.

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Yes, FPGA "threads" much like CPU threads can contain complex logic, and different from each other.