Future of 3d Graphics

Posted by michael on Sunday May 18, 2003 @05:41AM from the rendered-pr0n dept.

zymano writes "Extremetech has this nice article on the future of 3d graphics. The article also mentions that graphic card gpus can be used for non-traditional powerful processing like physics. A quote from the article, "GPU can be from 10 to 100 times faster than a Pentium 4 and Scientific computations such as linear algebra, Fast Fourier Transforms, and partial differential equations can benefit". My question - If these cards are getting so powerful at computations then why do we need a Intel/AMD processor at all? Just make a graphics card with more transistors and drop the traditional processor..."

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Re:Umm....GPU?!? by saden1 · 2003-05-18 06:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

That's just crazy talk!

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Re:Umm....GPU?!? by photon317 · 2003-05-18 07:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

GPU in the graphics card sense means Graphics Processing Unit.

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Re:We need traditonal processors by anzha · 2003-05-18 10:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

Maybe you've not heard of them then...;)

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