Well the CPU type calculations won't do much for gaming performance unless developers start offloading their CPU tasks to the GPU. So even if Nvidia removed all the CUDA and CPU operations, it's not not going to effect the gaming performance much. It's the cache heirarchy, threading improvements, GDDR5 and reworked cores that will improve it's game performance.
And the point of that reply is? Doesn't negate the fact it's still a GPU also.
Read the whole AnandTech article if ya haven't already...
And yeah that is an awesome quote.
"Ujesh is wiling to take total blame for GT200. As manager of GeForce at the time, Ujesh admitted that he priced GT200 wrong. NVIDIA looked at RV670 (Radeon HD 3870) and extrapolated from that to predict what RV770's performance would be. Obviously, RV770 caught NVIDIA off guard a...
I am being cool about it. I didn't mean my comment about your knowledge in a derogatory way or with any attitude. I know it probably comes of as if I was attacking you, it's hard to translate attitude into posts sometimes.
The theoretical peak is 8 fold.
What does the 5870 being a single GPU have to do with anything? FERMI is a single GPU also.
I've seen all the data I need to see. Unlike you, I have the tech knowledge to understand the specs and features that have been described in Nvidia's released Whitepaper on FERMI.
http://www.nvidia.com/conte...
I'm not just a gamer. I do 3D modeling & animation, and also dabble in programming. A GPU like this is of great interest to me. It's capab...
Yep, this thing is freaking epic. I'm saving my money up for it. I don't care if it ends up costing $600.
@Major Tom: It will replace XP. Because it only takes a tiny bit better hardware to run it well. Most existing XP computers can run it. And it's not just a little performance increases. They reworked the kernal and made the OS work much better with multi-core CPU's, along with GPU usage. DirectX 11 is here, and people are going to have to move into the future eventually. Your not going to want to stick with XP forever, or you'll be stuck in past technology. Now is the time to finally upgrade....
1.5GB and 3GB will be consumer. 6GB will be workstation. Of course, you never know what the AIB's might produce, one company might make a consumer 6GB card lol.
But anyway, this card is awesome. Don't know where your "pay out the ass" comment came from. No prices have been stated. And on the contrary, it was stated they it should be a good price. Nvidia knows they can't play the super high price game this round.
GTX 380 shall not be crap. It shall be epic. check it out:
http://n4g.com/tech/News-40...
A card that's pretty much it's own computer now. (RAM, CPU, GPU, Motherboard.) lol.
Awesome. Now I know for sure I'm waiting for the GT300. I don't care about the price, as long as it's below $600 for the 1.5GB.
Oh F*CK YEAH!
Hopefully some videos get leaked, and they talk about the specs at least a bit.
Here's the closest thing around to what you want.
http://n4g.com/News-379264....
4:16 into the video shows off why Tessellation is so awesome pretty well compared to what we used to use.
@Xi:
Both ATI and Nvidia will be supporting OpenCL. ATI doesn't "have it". Apple holds the rights to it, but it's developed by the Khronos Group, the same people who work on OpenGL.
CUDA isn't just an API for computing on GPU's. It's an extension of C++ for use with GPU's. That is why adoption of it by industries other than gaming has been so good. Because it doesn't take much work to port your C++ app to CUDA, or to program for CUDA if you already know C++...
Just like cars, many people care about how their cars look, not just how they perform. People want to have the coolest looking cars, not just the fastest. Due to speed limits, you can't show off your cars speed that much, but you can always show off it's style.
Yeah. Microsoft is most likely working hard to port IE 7 or 8 to the Zune. I wish you could just install Firefox mobile on it though lol.
Yep, from what they said the Zune is able to play 1080p Flash video using it's GPU without a problem.
"Except for playstation who may or may not ditch the cell/nvidia combo next time."
That makes no sense. What does the cell/nvidia combo have to do with anything? Nvidia and ATI GPU's support the same API's. Nvidia just has a little extra with CUDA/PhysX. So doesn't matter if Sony uses an ATI or Nvidia GPU in their next console. And CPU is even more irrelevant.
@Blasphemy:
Fail argument is fail. Of course you can keep waiting. One must choose when is the best time to upgrade though. Waiting 2 more months isn't a big deal to see what the other team is going to put out. It's called being a smart buyer. If your someone who has money flowing out their ass and can afford to buy a new card every year, then sure, buy now if you want. But if your someone who is planning on sticking with a certain card for a few years, then it's always best to see wha...
The architecture side of CUDA on Nvidia GPU's is merely changes that allow Nvidia's shaders to run CUDA faster than ATI's shaders would be able to. ATI could still run it without architecture changes, just not as fast.
"it doesn't matter it's up to the software developers to optimize everything on their end."
Not entirely. That's only for the threading of apps themselves across cores. Windows 7 can still distribute applications across the cores for better performance over all. Have a game running on 2 cores, an apps on the other 2.
And no, Windows 7 is able to utilize a lot more than a few cores. It was reworked after the mistakes in Vista to be future proofed, supporting t...