ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Oh, I see now.  Hmm, interesting.
As an aside, I wonder how nVidia is going - apparently, I've heard that they could be aiming their cards towards replacing the CPU's function a little - as in handling non graphics data.  Over a year ago, there were some apps designed to use the 7800GTX's pixel shaders for processing data instead (If I recall correctly, at the time the 7800GTX could do ~160 gigaflops, whereas the Intel P4 EE could do ~5 gigaflops)
I've heard that they've since released an SDK.

I hadn't heard that, but it is a fact that single cell processing is going the way of the dinosaurs.
A few weeks ago Intel released information on an 80 core processor they've developed that can
perform a trillion (that's 1000000000000) operations per second. I don't know what the advantage
to having a graphics card complement a cpu is, other than the fact that it would be modular and
therefor more flexible, but I'd support it. If nVidia wants to give me another cpu more power to them,
I dunno how Intel would feel about that though :P

On a sidenote, that Intel processor with 80 cores could actually perform more operations a second, but
they have yet to build any software to support it. :unlove:

On another sidenote, my CS prof wants to attach homing signals to children so he always knows where
they are and what they're doing. :@

(This post was last modified: 13/04/2007 06:31 AM by _VEndeTta.)