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X86 CUDA

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:41 pm
by GUIGuy
Nvidia have just announced details of x86 Cuda. Wonder what this will mean for octane
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/nvid ... paralleli/

Re: X86 CUDA

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:39 pm
by Carl S.
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

Re: X86 CUDA

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:02 pm
by pixelrush
Wow! :shock: that roadmap of performance increases is good news for Octane users :geek:

Re: X86 CUDA

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:14 pm
by matej
Exponent increase in performance and "hopefully will run cool"... I giggled there :)

Well, we will see...

Re: X86 CUDA

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:46 pm
by pixelrush
Yeah I suppose on closer scrutiny :geek: 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. :lol:

Still the performance increase over time is good for Octane users. No sign of a brick wall there yet. :)