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Are 48-core ARM processors compatible with AMD RADEON and NVIDIA video cards?

Hi!

I would like some info.

I've seen around the internet that the Cavium thunderX and thunderX2 have 48-core ARM processors and other higher cores.

  • Are these processors compatible with AMD RADEON and NVIDIA video cards?
  • When will ARM be ready to run a video card?
  • And then when is ARM ready to run any version of OS Windows?

Thanks for your feedback to the experts.

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  • The work between Microsoft and Cavium is to do with data centers. I wouldn't hold my breath about them doing graphics using PC cards. I guess there' some possibility they may get hitched up at some stage with a graphics type processor used for computation but that's pure speculation and nothing like running some graphics. They'd have no incentive to port the graphics drivers.

    At the other end of the range any graphics would be built into the chip. There's no real market for an external graphics board at the low end. No one is going for the mid to high range PC market - though I suppose you never know what can happen with Linux in Russia or China

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  • The work between Microsoft and Cavium is to do with data centers. I wouldn't hold my breath about them doing graphics using PC cards. I guess there' some possibility they may get hitched up at some stage with a graphics type processor used for computation but that's pure speculation and nothing like running some graphics. They'd have no incentive to port the graphics drivers.

    At the other end of the range any graphics would be built into the chip. There's no real market for an external graphics board at the low end. No one is going for the mid to high range PC market - though I suppose you never know what can happen with Linux in Russia or China

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