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mort96
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Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work ...
Oh. Weird use for a graphics unit.
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nkrisc
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Using GPU for compute is nothing new or unusual these days, not for quite a while.
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userbinator
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I've heard it phrased thus: The "G" in "GPU" stands for "general-purpose".
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mort96
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No, but its primary purpose remains graphics
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nkrisc
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Arguably that’s no longer true.
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lostlogin
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It’s what’s driven nearly the entire AI boom.
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