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AMD RV790 Architecture To Change GPGPU Landscape?
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."
Waiting for GPGPGPUs
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.
I read the internet for the articles.
General Purpose GPU's = massively parallel flops operations possible. ( Think matrix math, real time sims, lab testing, SETI, etc).
Still separate from a CPU, which has additional capabilities.
For the older folks, think of this as a math co-processor :) [ with it's own fan]
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.
I read the internet for the articles.
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.
~ C.
It's sad that this is actually almost true... Geforce 8800GT->9800GT->GT2x0 (I think 250 or something) are all the same GPU...
All your base are belong to Wii.