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Nvidia Discloses Details On Next-Gen Fermi GPU
EconolineCrush writes "The Tech Report has published the first details describing the architecture behind Nvidia's upcoming Fermi GPU. More than just a graphics processor, Fermi incorporates many enhancements targeted specifically at general-purpose computing, such as better support for double-precision math, improved internal scheduling and switching, and more robust tools for developers. Plus, you know, more cores. Some questions about the chip remain unanswered, but it's not expected to arrive until later this year or early next."
such as better support for double-precision math
BEST NEWS EVAR!
...I'm not sure it means what you think it means.
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Yes.
Now you have done it. Don't you know enough not to wake the fanboys. Now I am gonna have to hear how Jobs is a genius for not allowing people to do things that he believes unimportant with their hardware. That nobody actually needs any more control than Steve gives them. It's not that I agree with them. I just do not want to hear it. Please just let them have their fanboy dreams in peace. Please!
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
OF COURSE, who do you think they are? Apple, Sony, HP and Microsoft?
Nvidia just makes the cards. It isn't their fault if they're not installed, cooled or properly read bedtime stories after use.
Young coders are too lazy and brainwashed by MS and Sony to think anymore. You finally have the bandwidth and cpu and gpu to do something and your stuck dreaming at 640p. Hack the cards with Linux and dream big. Take computing back from the DRM, locked down junk MS and Sony code down to. You have the OS, now get some graphics freedom too.
I hope you don't contribute to the trunk, your code is 2x as long as it should be, and only half as effective!
That is an astoundingly bad analogy.
What about it's like having a regiment of 5000 soldiers vs 5 ninjas. If the task can be accomplished by rote then the regiment will win on sheer manpower, but it requires adaptability then the ninjas will triumph.
Substitute pirates for ninjas for an instant paradox.
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Hi thar. We gave you some useful hardware to support general purpose calculations in your graphics accelerator so you can compute while you compute.
The only thing we can't support is decent graphics in games without resorting to special, NVIDIA-specific patches.