What kind of CPU/GPU integration is offered by APUs?
- by clabacchio
I'm truly fascinated by the idea of GPGPU and using the GPU for heavy processing. I'm seeing that also APUs (Accelerated Processing Units, CPU+GPU on the same chip) are gaining a consistent popularity.
Are all of the APUs using a GPGPU? Can it be used for processing? And is it seamless or it requires special code (like Cuda) to have the hard work made by the GPU?
I'm not interested in bare graphic performance, but more about how much the GPU can accelerate the "normal" CPU work.