Any way to graphics cores on APU as CPU cores? (AMD A8-5600K)

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I know this sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I decided to take a shot. Any way to graphics cores on APU as CPU cores? I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but I just wanted to check. I have Windows 8, Asus A88x-PRO Mobo, Standard Geforce GTX 760 GPU, and AMD A8-5600K APU. I originally got an APU on my pc because I wanted to use it while I was saving up for a
GPU. Now, I don't use the GPU cores on it and would like to use them as CPU cores, if possible. I am pretty sure this isn't possible, but wanted to check. Thanks!
 
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Pretty sure the answer is no, they are designed differently from normal CPU cores. There might be some programs out there that can use the GPU cores for processing, but it would be for very limited, highly parallel tasks like some BOINC projects.

If you had gotten an AMD-based GPU, you might have gotten the ability to use the Dual Display technology for some minor video performance boosts.
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Pretty sure the answer is no, they are designed differently from normal CPU cores. There might be some programs out there that can use the GPU cores for processing, but it would be for very limited, highly parallel tasks like some BOINC projects.

If you had gotten an AMD-based GPU, you might have gotten the ability to use the Dual Display technology for some minor video performance boosts.
 
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I know, but I was meaning something similar for the graphics cores on the AMD processor as it is like an imitation gpu integrated into a cpu. But, I got my answer, I didn't think it'd work. One last question. Are there any practical uses for those cores while I have a gpu? Like can I use them at all to speed up my pc even a little?
 
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When you buy intel, you are paying for the name, it is waaaay too expensive for what it is. I'd be paying like 300 for an intel chip where I can pay like 80 for AMD that's only a little worse. Plus my a8 can run games at ultra paired with my gtx 760. I ran Shadow of Mordor at max settings with no lag at all. I have my a8 overclocked to 4.5 ghz and i've gotten it to 5.0, but it had rare stability crashes which drove me nuts.
 
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Everyone in this thread is wrong. Absolutely you can use your APU for GPU computing. I use it occasionally for parallel finite difference computations.

CUDA is an proprietary Nvidia technology but there is also a competing (Open Source) computing language for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs. "OpenCL"

On the Wikipedia page there is code that implements the Fast Fourier Transform in OpenCL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL
http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/

*note: this doesn't mean that you can turn your GPU into an extra general purpose computing unit. Only specially written algorithms can be efficiently run on a GPU.
 
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Yes if you have a specific application that is written in OpenCL you can run it on an APU. As a minimum you probably need to know how to code in C before attempting to utilize OpenCL. It is only useful for specific algorithms that can be efficiently implemented as many parallel computations (like the example FFT algorithm on the wikipedia page)
 
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Correct, took people a bit to read through the poorly written question.
 
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Any way you could find how to do this ? I got a A10-7700K APU + R9 270X GPU and can't stand the fact that i'm not using the GPU part of my APU.
Thanks !
 
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