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."

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GPGPU= General Purpose GPU

[frith01]

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]

Re:GPGPU= General Purpose GPU

[Hurricane78]

I'm sorry to break this to you, but... *whispers* she's not real...

Slashdot readers having wives was already crazy... but they being interested in it too... Yeah, right...

Re:nVidia rules

[i.of.the.storm]

It's sad that this is actually almost true... Geforce 8800GT->9800GT->GT2x0 (I think 250 or something) are all the same GPU...