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by Narishma 1750 days ago
It is correct to call Vortex a GPU? I looked at the github but there doesn't seem to be anything there related to graphics.
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It appears to target "GPGPU" APIs like OpenCL and CUDA via translation, making it more like Xeon Phi in that its architecture and instruction set is vaguely GPU-like, while it lacks video output or fixed-function pipeline hardware for graphics stuff.

Also like Xeon Phi, I'm guessing you could add that hardware, it just hasn't been done because the other priorities were more interesting, and the practical performance would be "disappointing".