You're taking everything out of context you stupid fuck.
They will provide the "only viable competition". I never said they were going to be completely better, just better suited to GPU specific stuff than GENERAL PURPOSE stuiff.
That does not mean that it will beat a Cell at all, it simply means it may be more effective at operations geared towards what GPUs do, though that does not mean it will win in a head to head competition of brute force, in fact it can't.
Have a nice day retard, go memorize your times tables.
Obviously you didn't read it all.
Basically, it has to do with the type of processing that the APUs and GPU do.
While both are primarily concerned with vector processing, the Cell is suited more for general purpose computing than a GPU is, hence the GPU will be better at doing what GPU's do best: rendering media/graphics.
Below is copied directly from the part of the whole article that deals with "Cell vs GPU":
The PC Retaliates: Cell V's GPU
The PC does have a weapon with which to respond, the GPU (Graphics Processor Unit). On computational power GPUs will be the only real competitors to the Cell.
GPUs have always been massively more powerful than general purpose processors [PC + GPU][GPU] but since programmable shaders were introduced this power has become available to developers and although designed specifically for graphics some have been using it for other purposes. Future generations of shaders promise even more general purpose capabilities[DirectX Next].
GPUs operate in a similar manner to the Cell in that they contain a number of parallel vector processors called vertex or pixel shaders, these are designed to process a stream of vertices of 3D objects or pixels but many other compute heavy applications can be modified to run instead [EE-GPU].
With aggressive competition between ATI and Nvidia the GPUs are only going to get faster and now "SLI" technology is being used again to pair GPUs together to produce even more computational power.
GPUs will provide the only viable competition to the Cell but even then for a number of reasons I don't think they will be able to catch the Cell.
Cell is designed from the ground up to be more general purpose than GPUs, the APUs are not graphics specific so adapting non 3D algorithms will likely mean less work for developers.
Cell has the main general purpose PU sharing the same fast memory as the APUs. This is distinct from PCs where GPUs have their own high speed memory and can only access main system memory via the AGP bus. PCI Express should speed this up but even this will be limited due to the bus being shared with the CPU. Additionally vendors may not fully support the PCI Express specification, existing GPUs are very slow at moving data from GPU to main memory.
There is another reason I don't think Nvidia or ATI will be able to match the Cell's performance anytime soon. Last time around the PC rapidly caught up with and surpassed the PS2, I think it is one of Sony's aims this time to make that very difficult so, as such Cell has been designed in a highly aggressive manner.
I've gotten to a point where I can usually break even on kills/deaths and occasionally luck out with a 2:1 or 3:1 round.
I've noticed though, that unless you've memorized every single possible camping position and all of the normal routes people take from point A to point B, most of the encounters are pure luck, where whoever snags the hitbox for a headshot first wins.
There are people much more skilled than us of course, who know exactly how to aim and where to aim to produce those headshots much more often, as well as being much better at jumping all around and anticipating what semi-n00bs and n00bs are going to do in a firefight.
Stuff is still a bit strange though, I cannot for the life of me figure out how some people can be nearly 100% accurate with the sniper rifles, VERY RARELY missing, while I can sit there all fucking day and never hit a damn thing.
Shotgun at range is also a bit fucked up, as with the deagle, they're so accurate it's scary.
I'm no expert in chemistry and physics of course, but my guess would be that while there may be pockets of liquid methane and what not in places, the majority of it is probably frozen, especially on the surface.
Better compression of data is useful to many many sectors.
Everything from mobile phones, satellite comms. You will never be able to overcome say, the distance from here to Pluto by trying to go faster than light, instead if you decrease the amount of data being transferred enough, it can save millions of dollars in time.
Unfortunately for you, this is where a good chunk
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of the world is going to.
Sometime in the not-so-distant future a very large portion of the population will be spending much of their lives in virtual simulations, and we're not talking World of Warcraft here either, think of almost Matrix-esque experiences.
Society is changing, and it really isn't your perogative to lay judgement onto those who wish to spend their time differently than you do or believe it should be spent.
Besides, this isn't the only outlet for this type of behavior.
This is just a case of a vendor allowing a client to do some free advertisement for them, even if the thing is vaporhardware.
On a slightly off-topic note.. Legal Expenses.
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I believe our judicial system should be a factor of government, and not economy.
Currently, if you have an unlimited budget you are usually on higher ground in the legal world, you can hire better lawyers, drag the case out longer, and generally spend your opponent to their bankruptcy if you chose to.
#1 being the legitimacy of characters on official vs unofficial.
The main reason people pay the subscription fee is because in having their character stored on an OFFICIAL database, it means that all mainstream people will have a chance at seeing them, this applies especially to powergamers.
If you play on an unofficial server, the general masses never hear about your adventures, you being the first to do this or that, because it's just a shadow of what they are in.
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Thanks, this 12 hour shift is ticking by slow.
accurate. :)
Obviously you're too fucking stupid to understand what I am trying to tell you.
You're not listening, you're not interested in any other point of view but your own.
I keep trying to fucking tell you what the deal is with these things, but you keep fucking ignoring me and going off on your own.
So fine, keep your own fucking incorrect perspective you fucking retard.
Apparently you're not interested in learning anything here, so go fucking kill yourself please.
the SAME.
APUs are geared more toward GENERAL PURPOSE processing.
You're taking everything out of context you stupid fuck.
They will provide the "only viable competition". I never said they were going to be completely better, just better suited to GPU specific stuff than GENERAL PURPOSE stuiff.
That does not mean that it will beat a Cell at all, it simply means it may be more effective at operations geared towards what GPUs do, though that does not mean it will win in a head to head competition of brute force, in fact it can't.
Have a nice day retard, go memorize your times tables.
While both are primarily concerned with vector processing, the Cell is suited more for general purpose computing than a GPU is, hence the GPU will be better at doing what GPU's do best: rendering media/graphics.
Below is copied directly from the part of the whole article that deals with "Cell vs GPU":
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.htm l
Very good read.
shift.
Sad really.
I've gotten to a point where I can usually break even on kills/deaths and occasionally luck out with a 2:1 or 3:1 round.
I've noticed though, that unless you've memorized every single possible camping position and all of the normal routes people take from point A to point B, most of the encounters are pure luck, where whoever snags the hitbox for a headshot first wins.
There are people much more skilled than us of course, who know exactly how to aim and where to aim to produce those headshots much more often, as well as being much better at jumping all around and anticipating what semi-n00bs and n00bs are going to do in a firefight.
Stuff is still a bit strange though, I cannot for the life of me figure out how some people can be nearly 100% accurate with the sniper rifles, VERY RARELY missing, while I can sit there all fucking day and never hit a damn thing.
Shotgun at range is also a bit fucked up, as with the deagle, they're so accurate it's scary.
I fully agree with it too, our destiny doesn't lie on this planet, we're eventually going to jump into the realm of science-fiction.
I wish we would be alive to see it, but we won't.
I'm no expert in chemistry and physics of course, but my guess would be that while there may be pockets of liquid methane and what not in places, the majority of it is probably frozen, especially on the surface.
others.
The "worth" of one human life varies from person to person.
If there are ample volunteers, then why not do it? We all die in the end anyway, some would like to die for a bigger purpose.
and I probably do 30 solid minutes of stuff I could call actual WORK for each 12 hour shift.
They have their priorities so ass-backwards it's sick, lol.
Now... about that date..
Better compression of data is useful to many many sectors.
Everything from mobile phones, satellite comms. You will never be able to overcome say, the distance from here to Pluto by trying to go faster than light, instead if you decrease the amount of data being transferred enough, it can save millions of dollars in time.
of the world is going to.
Sometime in the not-so-distant future a very large portion of the population will be spending much of their lives in virtual simulations, and we're not talking World of Warcraft here either, think of almost Matrix-esque experiences.
Society is changing, and it really isn't your perogative to lay judgement onto those who wish to spend their time differently than you do or believe it should be spent.
Besides, this isn't the only outlet for this type of behavior.
what's the concept of anything?
What's the point of anything eh? We should just all seppuku to save everyone the grief eh?
The things you think about on a 12 hour shift..
my opinion anyway.
Personally if someone asked me that kind of question at an interview i'd get up and leave.
There is no purpose for that.
You buy company A's stuff, and they aren't going to mind if you get up on the soapbox and show off the product. ;)
client.
This is just a case of a vendor allowing a client to do some free advertisement for them, even if the thing is vaporhardware.
I believe our judicial system should be a factor of government, and not economy.
Currently, if you have an unlimited budget you are usually on higher ground in the legal world, you can hire better lawyers, drag the case out longer, and generally spend your opponent to their bankruptcy if you chose to.
Why is this?
#1 being the legitimacy of characters on official vs unofficial.
The main reason people pay the subscription fee is because in having their character stored on an OFFICIAL database, it means that all mainstream people will have a chance at seeing them, this applies especially to powergamers.
If you play on an unofficial server, the general masses never hear about your adventures, you being the first to do this or that, because it's just a shadow of what they are in.