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It's taxing on CPU and GPU: normal | running screensaver in browser CPU: 5% | 15% GPU: 10% | 45%
What’s your GPU? My phone can handle the demo without freaking out so I find it hard to understand why a PC would take half its available GPU compute to do the same.
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Hit "C" to bring up the control panel which, btw, is written in Elm!
Ah, the tell-tale signs of re-implementing inputs from scratch! It's not so much "hit C" as "Hit the key with code KeyC"... which means press "j" if you're using Dvorak, and something else if you're using Azerty, Colemak, or some other layout.
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> I'd be curious to profile the official program and see what's hogging the GPU so much... It's a fluid simulation. Compute shaders, compute shaders, compute shaders.
Right, but a lot of those shaders will run fine on the CPU as opposed to the GPU. Especially with the current lineup of supported Intel Macs, there's pretty much no supported machines that don't have comprehensive vector computation pipelines on the CPU-side of things. IMO the best balance would be maxing out the AVX pipeline but keeping the CPU at base clock, and then leave the rendering/framebuffer manipulation to…
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Right, but a lot of those shaders will run fine on the CPU as opposed to the GPU. Especially with the current lineup of supported Intel Macs, there's pretty much no supported machines that don't have comprehensive vector computation pipelines on the CPU-side of things. IMO the best balance would be maxing out the AVX pipeline but keeping the CPU at base clock, and then leave the rendering/framebuffer manipulation to…
GPUs are multiple orders of magnitude faster than a CPU's max theoretical throughput. If a GPU is slowing down the solution is a faster GPU, the CPU won't be able to help out much at the same stuff.
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GPUs are multiple orders of magnitude faster than a CPU's max theoretical throughput. If a GPU is slowing down the solution is a faster GPU, the CPU won't be able to help out much at the same stuff.
But if the problem is power usage couldn't running slower on the less powerful chip be better?