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Is it possible to use the NPU as "another" CPU? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by GustavoM@lemmy.world to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world
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Title. In other words, to make the system redirect workload to the NPU -first- and then to the CPU when it reaches 100% usage? Like both NPU and CPU were a single, huge CPU instead of being separated?

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

To be clear, I'm not saying your idea is bad, just that I don't see practical benefits to making use of it, other than "it's there doing nothing." That might just as easily be my lack of imagination.

If anything, freeing up a few extra %'s might be a good idea for a few PCs.

I like the way you think, and perhaps there's a use case there. I have to wonder how much of a performance bump you'd get by doing something like that; min/maxing doesn't really interest me, so I'll wait to see benchmarks of anyone who actually tries something like this.