But will Carmack code for it? :|
what is ATI "Kaleidoscope" ?
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sireric said:
Awesome!!!! When will I be able to buy one?! You guys are going to revolutionise the industry, way to go ATi!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once I get mine i'm gonna stick four fans on it and overclock the hell outta it!!!! And maybe put some LED's on it to add some bling bling........
I'd go with the polymorphic pipeline idea; a rendering system based on numerous units of base functionality that can reorganise on-the-fly into different "pseudo-architectures". The hard bit (on the logic side) is probably the control/load-balancing aspect, and it sounds as if this may involve an unprecedented marriage of hardware with the drivers.
I have no idea what I am talking about. LOL.
...or it just means something boring, like the fact that it can be adapted for a wide range of applications and scales well from the plebby end upwards.
*yawn*
I have no idea what I am talking about. LOL.
...or it just means something boring, like the fact that it can be adapted for a wide range of applications and scales well from the plebby end upwards.
*yawn*
MrGaribaldi
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sireric said:
Will it have support for WGF/Dx Next/OGL3.0, or just DX9/OGL2.0?
And are you planning on adding any special features to enhance older games (pre-DX era ie. DukeNukem3D)?
/me starts saving right now so I'm able to buy it when it comes out with an MSRP of 500$ USD
(is that the price in current dollars, or the price in dollars on release date?)
val_parthen
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I'll take an actual shot in the dark and guess it'll be the ATi SLI equivalent.
If the 'clue is in the name', then I'll say it's a way for multiple GPUs to render fragments of the screen all at once.
Or, perhaps, it's a way to get a new PCIe system, stick in some really cheap 1x graphics cards with minimal functionality (like 5 or 6 of them), and have them all loop-back into your main card (16x PCIe) which handles the more bandwidth intensive calculations, and have each of the cheapo cards rendering a portion of the screen... or rendering textures while the main card does geometry.
Mebbe it's MAXX 2. :b
If the 'clue is in the name', then I'll say it's a way for multiple GPUs to render fragments of the screen all at once.
Or, perhaps, it's a way to get a new PCIe system, stick in some really cheap 1x graphics cards with minimal functionality (like 5 or 6 of them), and have them all loop-back into your main card (16x PCIe) which handles the more bandwidth intensive calculations, and have each of the cheapo cards rendering a portion of the screen... or rendering textures while the main card does geometry.
Mebbe it's MAXX 2. :b
That's what I've read from Dave's hints (at least I think it was his). But I'd say that's the opposite of what a kaleidoscope does.val_parthen said:
It does not collect images from different locations, and merge them into one place.
It does take one image from one place, and replicate it to several other places.
The closest fit for that wrt GPUs IMHO, would be if it's a scheme to store each texture on just one gfx card, and mirror it to other cards when needed. (OK, it could be the idea to store each texture on all cards, but that wouldn't be worth a fancy name IMO.)
Another interesting features would be to use motherboard gfx as a third RAMDAC for surround view. I mean, let a R5xx do the rendering for all three monitors, and send one to the mb-gfx That's probably more efficient than trying to use the mb-gfx rendering capabilities if it's significantly slower than the R5xx.
davepermen
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it's IN the name.
kalei dos cope.
it will be a dos operating system for ati gpus. they're fully programable at least, aren't they?
kalei dos cope.
it will be a dos operating system for ati gpus. they're fully programable at least, aren't they?
davepermen
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no clue. but thats not in the name..
but i guess, as we wanna be future proof, yes... possibly even .NET 2.0 even while it's still beta...
but i guess, as we wanna be future proof, yes... possibly even .NET 2.0 even while it's still beta...
