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by SpaceNoodled 991 days ago
They're also free to write math libraries that don't depend on GPUs.
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Hi, MatX currently has partial support for CPUs too. Please see this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37758635

The performance boost you get from using a GPU is incredible.

You might as well say they're free to make monitors that don't rely on color.

GPU performance per dollar is only competitive for specific workloads. For extremely large scale compute, getting enough data center GPUs can also be challenging.