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AMD RV790 Architecture To Change GPGPU Landscape?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the continuing-the-leapfrog-process dept.

Vigile writes "To many observers, the success of the GPGPU landscape has really been pushed by NVIDIA and its line of Tesla and Quadro GPUs. While ATI was the first to offer support for consumer applications like Folding@Home, NVIDIA has since taken command of the market with its CUDA architecture and programs like Badaboom and others for the HPC world. PC Perspective has speculation that points to ATI addressing the shortcomings of its lineup with a revised GPU known as RV790 that would both dramatically increase gaming performance as well as more than triple the compute power on double precision floating point operations — one of the keys to HPC acceptance."

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  1. nVidia rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... the "rename the same old shit four times to try and con people"-market, that's for sure.

  2. That's a lot of pages supporting guesswork. by jandrese · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So this is what some anonymous guy on the internet thinks might happen? Granted, he has a lot of material in there, but in the end it's all just guesswork. Apparently he's a big fan of cheaper lower end video cards as well, and is hoping that ATI releases one.

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  3. Re:Apparently I'm behind on my acronyms... by jandrese · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's basically using your video card as a general purpose processor. You might think such an acronym would be hard to find on google, but it turns it it isn't.

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  4. LOLNO by MostAwesomeDude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As far as I know, the RV790 will be in the R600/R700 family and will work almost perfectly with existing R600/R700 code. While I have no guarantees on this, current talks with AMD employees haven't given off any indication that this chipset will be radically different from its cousins.

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  5. Re:Waiting for: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your wish has been granted:

    http://www.gpgpgpu.com/

  6. Re:Apparently I'm behind on my acronyms... by Lord+Ender · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is bad journalism on the part of the slashdot editors to force the readers to google for acronyms. Common, long-standing acronyms, like CPU, are one thing. But GPGPU should absolutely be defined in the summary. I find it hard to believe some people pay money for this site, and that "editors" get paid money for their "editing."

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