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Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks 1 GHz

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the stable-overclocking-unstable-overclockers dept.

dacaldar writes "According to Yahoo Finance, noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto have made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon® X1800 XT graphics processor from ATI Technologies Inc."

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  1. One wonders... by kko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    why this announcement would come out on Yahoo! Finance

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  2. It was 2D mode only by anttik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sampsa Kurri told in a Finnish forum that it was over 1 GHz only in 2D mode. They are trying to run it with same clocks later. ATI left some tiny details away from their press release... ;P

  3. Re:GPU to excel CPU by steveo777 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I recall reading an article on /. a long time ago involving a group of coders from MIT or something like that who pitted a P4 CPU against an ATI or nVidia GPU that was running at about a third the clock speed with a tenth of the memory. They were, of course, running mostly linear equations and the CPU got it's pants kicked in by just under an order of magnitude IIRC.

    What I've been waiting for is some sort of mathematics program (I used to use Mathematica in college) that could utilize this concentrated power, rather than hampering the CPU.

    Does anyone know if any researchers have gone as far as to utilize a GPU for anything like this?

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