Nvidia have just announced details of x86 Cuda. Wonder what this will mean for octane
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/nvid ... paralleli/
X86 CUDA
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This sounds interesting too.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/nvid ... 11-maxwel/
Kepler's based on a 28nm process, we're told, and will thankfully deliver an estimated 3 to 4 times the performance per watt compared to Fermi, and hopefully run cool. If you built your last PC to last, however, you might wait for Maxwell in 2013, supposedly bringing a sixteen-fold increase in parallel graphics-based computing just two years after that, including advanced features like the ability to autonomously process some content independent of a CPU
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/nvid ... 11-maxwel/
Kepler's based on a 28nm process, we're told, and will thankfully deliver an estimated 3 to 4 times the performance per watt compared to Fermi, and hopefully run cool. If you built your last PC to last, however, you might wait for Maxwell in 2013, supposedly bringing a sixteen-fold increase in parallel graphics-based computing just two years after that, including advanced features like the ability to autonomously process some content independent of a CPU
that roadmap of performance increases is good news for Octane users 
Yeah I suppose on closer scrutiny 
if you take into account that Fermi might have consumed 2x as much W as it should have and look out 4 years of 30% faster each generation every 9 months that pretty much accounts for 8x difference projected between Fermi and Maxwell....so in actual fact its just business as usual expressed another way. 
Still the performance increase over time is good for Octane users. No sign of a brick wall there yet.
if you take into account that Fermi might have consumed 2x as much W as it should have and look out 4 years of 30% faster each generation every 9 months that pretty much accounts for 8x difference projected between Fermi and Maxwell....so in actual fact its just business as usual expressed another way. Still the performance increase over time is good for Octane users. No sign of a brick wall there yet.
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