Recent content by wingless

What podcast is that? I would like to listen.

Why doesn't it seem likely? From the 2900XT, to 3870, to 4870 and to 5870, the timspan has been almost exactly the same. The ATI division gets new chips out once a year.

I'll go with a 5870X2 for extreme overkill. I don' t ever want to struggle for frame rates.

It looks like they have all the right supporters behind them. AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Microsoft FTW! Caustic is seriously the future of rendering imo.

Wow, I hope they get this guy to do some terrain for some new flight sims. We need a new Lock-On: Modern Air Combat game!

The "Here are similar thread you might want to read first" message popped up with this when I typed the title of my PCIe Speed Test thread. I LOL'd. It deserves a bump just for a good laugh.

http://www.caustic.com/dev_intro.php The interesting bit is that t his accellerator enhances the capabilities of AMD, Intel, and Nvidia's existing hardware. I think they have a winner with this one! I just hope Intel doesn't buy them and once thwart competition.

Heh, if AMD had the R&D staff to do this, they could fix up the K6 family CPUs by adding x64 and their upcoming advanced vector instruction set (SSE5 I think?). Then they could plop it down on the upcoming 40nm GPU process. This is essentially what Intel did with the old Pentium architecture...

We figured out how to go from 1 or 2 shaders in a video card to 800 shaders in hardware and program for it. While a bit more complex, I think software and programming techniques will scale with this new hardware like it did for GPUs. That only took a few short years. More high level programming...

I'm still waiting for Tessellation to be enabled in games. I bought a 2900XT and now have a 4870. I feel sorta ripped hehe.

I wonder if Larrabee can be made to run SwiftShader to showcase how well it renders x86 3D graphics. I can't wait to see comparisons with Nehalem as well.

I realize the link I posted is just of a Nehalem running 3D graphics. I just added that to illustrate the point that Intel wants to make 3D graphics on PCs all x86. I remember reading that Larrabee was to have it's own instruction set and I thought that was AVX, but I see I'm mistaken. It had...

If Larrabee is a success then companies like Nvidia and ATI may be up a creek. My purpose for this thread is to speculate on what type of CPU/GPU AMD will need to compete with Intel's Larrabee. AMD is also planning a new instruction set called SSE5 which seems to be geared toward the Bulldozer...

SwiftShader 2.0 on AMD Phenom I'm really anxious to know how well it performs on the Phenom platform as well. SS seems like an extremely memory intensive program and should benefit from Phenom/Nehalem cache structures and system mem bandwidth. I hope they add SEE4/a enhancements in future...

I'm sure you just gave an ATI engineer a nice joke for around the office. Also, yay for old style game engines that barely use shader power. Lets try an Unreal 3 powered game and see what happens :) .