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by JonChesterfield 142 days ago
Merely mislead by marketing. The x64 arch has 512bit registers and a hundred or so cores. The gpu arch has 1024bit registers and a few hundred SMs or CUs, being the thing equivalent to an x64 core.

The software stacks running on them are very different but the silicon has been converging for years.