Having flashbacks to using Rebirth-338
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Then you get your bill from your isp, $5 extra per device.
As far as I'm concerned, LaLa died when it stopped being the CD Trading community.
Well, I should say, it won't rival a dedicated GPU once you factor in cost.
FPGAs are general purpose logic gates that you can reprogram on the fly to do whatever you want them to do. I suppose you could configure them to do matrix maths, but they are not going to rival a dedicated GPU. Most hardware that utilizes a FPGA does so to simplify circut design, allow for circut redesign after a board has been built, and to cut down the number of external logic parts needed.
A CPU / GPU also has many orders of magnitude more logic gates than an FPGA has.
I think it might have been their flash video player having a poor implementation. For some reason it pegs my cpu at 100% and starts to glitch.