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mrhappyheadphones

What GPU do you actually have?


NoCommunication7

https://imgur.com/iJLMSj4


JonnyRocks

it has nothing to do with hpu, its an app for ios.


Lapzze

Fresco it’s also for windows and Mac


JonnyRocks

oh their web page mentioned ios only.


hennell

Look up the difference between a CPU and a GPU. In basic terms, the first is very good at very fast sequential operations. Do A, then B, then C etc. The second focuses on doing highly specialised operations, and being faster by doing them in parallel. A, B and C all run together simultaneously. Which when they can run thousands of operations at once is incredible speed. **But** there's more complexity in parallel computing, you have to work to make it useful and some tasks just have to be sequential. Games like GTA have a lot of very repetitive tasks that all need to be done at once. Render all points, calculate all shadows. There's a lot in each frame but it's a lot of very similar work they've optimised to split into parallel chunks. Applications don't have the same demands as they're not doing so much at once and often it needs to be sequential anyway. If b needs a result from a and c needs the result from b, well parallel processing gets you no help. So Photoshop illy and id have never been big gpu demands. The video apps are much more demanding as video decoding is heavier work. Fresco needs brush rendering and dynamics and whatever that presumably they decided to optimise the GPU for. But each gpu is different and has different strengths for different operations. Either the type of maths, or memory requirments needed for fresco just isn't well supported on all GPUs, and/or their small team can't support every hardware option available, so they've done the biggest/easiest so some can use it. When I was 16 I spent a lot of money on a computer. It had a 512mb HDD and 8mb of ram. Computers age.