Comment by Neywiny

What's not mentioned is a comparison vs FPGAs. You can have a systolic, fully pipelined system for any data processing not just vectorized SIMD. Every primitive is able to work independently of everything else. For example, if you have 240 DSP slices (which is far from outrageous on low scale), a perfect design could use those as 240 cores at 100% throughput. No memory, caching, decoding, etc overhead.