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carnegieigenrac

Looking at the picture of the core i7, less than half of the CPU is taken up by the 4 cores. What is the rest of the space on the CPU actually used for?

llcoolj

The left side is for graphics! http://wccftech.com/review/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-k-cpu-review-asus-z170-pro-gaming/3/

The intel chip has an integrated graphics unit so that the computer does not need a separate video or graphics card. It utilizes part of the computer's RAM to handle graphics rendering.

taichia

What is the difference between a nVidia CUDA core and a Intel CPU Core? A quick google search tells me that CUDA cores are meant for specifics tasks but CPU cores are more general purpose, but there's prob a more detailed explanation?

ferozenaina

@taichia - the architecture is very different. The Intel core is a general-purpose core which supports all the IntelĀ® 64 and IA-32 instruction set architecture.

The nVidia core supports a very different instruction set. It's called PTX parallel thread execution virtual machine and instruction set architecture (ISA). It's optimized for performing parallel execution.

(Read more at: http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/index.html)