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- Shadowgamers, on 04/26/2008, -5/+89CPUs are dead? I wonder what their computers are running on...
- gr3yn3t, on 04/26/2008, -3/+78Holy blogspam, batman!
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36889/118/ - govsucks, on 04/26/2008, -2/+58Good, let them compete, it will make for faster processors on both ends. I will use both of them and process whatever I want faster.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -2/+41Competition is good for everyone. Let's hope they fight and make things better for consumers. Amen.
- Cherubim, on 04/26/2008, -2/+35Translation. Nvidia is scared ***** of CPU manufacturers incorporating GPU functionality into their processors.
- Myztry, on 04/26/2008, -2/+31Hardly. It's taken nearly a quarter of a century to get GPU's from the likes of the 1985 Amiga's Blitter Co-processor to the stage they are now. They are obviously much evolved, but still rely primarily on rendering polygons. The Intel prototypes of ray-traced graphics is much more like a second generation then the point releases GPU's are still under.
Even programmable shaders bear a striking (though evolved) resemblence to the 1985 Amiga's programmable 'Copper' co-processor. There has been no resounding breakthroughs for a very long time. Brute speed increases in co-processor's is a good thing. But hardly some 'be all and end all' concept where co-processor take over the main processor.
The idea of a co-processor 'becoming the system' might sound good to investors - but it's a bit of a yawn really... Much more realistic is the main processor swallowing the functions of external co-processor chips like GPU's. A computer on a single chip, to the last function. - moocow1452, on 04/26/2008, -1/+25Last thing we need is a processor monopoly...
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...…........................I….....D…O…N…'...T.....…G…E...T.......I.T....................... - digiwand, on 04/26/2008, -1/+17Ageia was recently purchased by nVidia. While the physX add-on card promised much and was/is available, it never really delivered on those promises and it failed to get the necessary game support.
In most of the games it did support it actually slowed down the framerates as it added a ton of particles to the game if it had hardware physX support, which did not help its reputation at all.
It was a good idea poorly executed, most of which you'll see picked up by the GPU companies and properly executed on a spare GPU in a multi-card system. (The current rumor is all about nVidia working PhysX into Cuda, but that is such BS it ain't funny. ;) ) - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -8/+22Intel doesn't need Nvidia.
I got an matx intel board with x3000 integrated gfx, I can play Bf2 maxed out and I get 70fps, bf2142 at average settings: 65 fps, far cry average settings:50fps. I also play need for speed 2, HL2 and a few other games with great results (I've never seen games load this fast, no matter what the rig is).
Here's a demo with the same integrated gfx architecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OogVYWQLAhM
And my motherboard only cost $100, I don't need a sound card (integrated HD 7.1 audio) and I can play a lot of games (just not very recent ones) without a videocard on an HDtv (through HDMI, integrated). The entire PC cost me about 400$. It was supposed to just be a media centre PC then I tried Bf2 just for ***** and giggles and played all night in HD resolution on the home theatre system.
I think Intel could outperfom any videocard within the next 5 years. If they can keep the price low (even adding 100$ to the price would still be cheaper than getting a vid card) and start competing with top of the line, or at least current moderatly high-end videocards, nobody will be buying a very expensive videocard anymore. The x4500 is coming out this year and it's supposed to be already 3x faster than x3000. - cfuse, on 04/26/2008, -1/+14I think the more important question is who approves the box art on graphics cards? That ***** rocks.
- consoneo, on 04/26/2008, -1/+14Yep.. Mostly because of this comment.
- smacksaw, on 04/26/2008, -1/+14LOLWUT???
- JigoroKano, on 04/26/2008, -1/+13Are you in your own cult?
- punkcat, on 04/26/2008, -0/+9so we dugg the article that mentions the article about Nvidia?
- alclone, on 04/26/2008, -1/+10Thank you.
It makes the Intel chips cheaper for me to buy :) - smacksaw, on 04/26/2008, -0/+9I was thinking about this during Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Anyone watch that? John Connor needs to hack into this Terminator's brain and he jery-rigs a video card's GPU to do it.
It's funny, Hollywood usually has the most un-technical explanations, but that one was actually a pretty good prognostication. - lateralus, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8Confirmed: Legendary gamer Fata|ity has just signed a 10-yr exclusive contract with Asus as the coverboy for the upcoming EEE Extreme Edition (x^5)
- Enron1985, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8So far, Intel's graphics solutions have been completely useless for anyone serious about gaming. It would be nice if expensive graphics cards were not neccessary, but Intel certainly has alot of work to do if they want to change that.
- dsmx, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8Actually that isn't b/s they are already putting the code into the next set of drivers for the 8xxx and 9xxx series last I heard.
- consoneo, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7When did this happen? I heard about it with Creative, but not nVidia... Am I out of the loop??
- funklor, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7For the CPU to be dead nVidia would have to radically define what a computer is.
- mancat, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8I'd love to know how you're pulling that off, because I can't play jack ***** on my x3000, even with the latest drivers and an otherwise beefy system.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8But that's still a CPU, it just has something that an ordinary one doesnt :V
- GOVATENT, on 04/26/2008, -0/+6the nice things about a gpu is that you can upgrade to support newer features. With IGPU you need a new mother board.
- t2t2, on 04/26/2008, -0/+6I want one, please!
It shall be Cult of Pirates! - Jenadae, on 04/26/2008, -3/+9More competition makes more discounts. Let the battles begin boys!
- tcpip4lyfe, on 04/26/2008, -1/+7But I like my cpu....
- kinerry, on 04/26/2008, -1/+7who gives a ***** what you think?
everyone else is eating it up! - frostbytemike, on 04/26/2008, -0/+6Ahh yes the Ageia PhysX card. The only thing that thing could do was to lower your frame rates. To boot the card was only compatible with some games. The only game i knew that worked with the card was GRAW. Why have a physics card when cpus nowadays have multicores?
- sinatosk, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5GPGPU probably.... uses the same instructions as the CPU but with other instructions for Graphics aswell :p
I think.... - neko, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5It's a nice idea. Personally I'm hoping the AMD/ATI merger will eventually lead to some kind of interchangable socket that can be used for both CPUs and GPUs. Imagine a motherboard with, say, four sockets, and you can mix and match CPUs & GPUs depending on your needs.
Unlikely to happen for a long time though. - fuhlavaflave, on 04/26/2008, -3/+8Whatever happened to that add-on card that would do physics computations independent of the GPU? I remember reading about it on Valve's forums one time. Anyone?
- KMartSheriff, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5He was being sarcastic...
I hope... - sjbdallas, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5I only watch it for Summer and Lena.
- marx2k, on 04/26/2008, -7/+11Their
- darkamster07, on 04/26/2008, -2/+6this really isn't a pedobear thing here, and i know he's recently come into his own on digg but you don't need to insert him into every article. now leave b4 i call hansen....
- skunkman62, on 04/26/2008, -0/+4so say we all
- KMartSheriff, on 04/26/2008, -1/+5[citation needed]
- cquinnd, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3Except we've seen Intel make these kinds of statements before, and at the end of the day gamers and enthusiasts go back to buy the next generation of GPU that manages those technologies much better.
- mintblogger, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3In the end consumer is going to benefit :D
- fuzzynyanko, on 04/26/2008, -1/+4Around the P2 era, you could get away with rendering graphics on the CPU, but not anymore for anything around Bioshock's level of graphics. Intel's GMA was a good step in the right direction, but it's not enough. I wonder how long it'll take Intel to pull off that level of graphics. At least one thing is good: Intel is working to make higher graphics standard on a PC.
AMD's idea of slapping a GPU core onto a CPU die is great, especially with the advent of hybrid crossfire. I do wonder, though, if AMD and NVidia can get together and standardize SLI and Crossfire. - combatchuck, on 04/26/2008, -1/+4Except for the fact that a GPU is several hundred times faster at 3D calculations than a CPU, and its memory is way faster, you have a point. Sort of. Maybe not.
- Dylson, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3They aren't going to compete. They already have a strong relationship.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2I'll just use both.
- grumpyrain, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Ninjas
- cultist667, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2***** nvidia.
- BearinG, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2And all this time I thought this was about Intel and nvidia
- apophenic, on 04/26/2008, -1/+3It's eight in the morning EST...
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2There's no pulling off anything, install and play.
I got 2.6 ghz dual core, 4 gigs of ram, an HDD and a DVD drive. And I'm running Vista 64 home premium. -
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