Only it's not purely specialty hardware in this case. It's a massively parallel computation subsystem that happens to be also able to generate a video signal.
This really makes sense in a way. I once read in a paper that the best thing to have when faced with the task of performing an arbitrary calculation with maximal speed is 1) one core that's a fast as possible (for stuff that must be calculated sequentially) and 2) as many as possible slower cores (for stuff that can be calculated in parallel).
This really makes sense in a way. I once read in a paper that the best thing to have when faced with the task of performing an arbitrary calculation with maximal speed is 1) one core that's a fast as possible (for stuff that must be calculated sequentially) and 2) as many as possible slower cores (for stuff that can be calculated in parallel).