B.Ob. Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 The Coming Combo Of The CPU And GPU, Ray Tracing Versus Rasterization, And Why Billions Of Dollars Is At Stake "If AMD and ATI combine the central processing unit with the graphics processing unit, it could collapse the barrier between multibillion-dollar industries, leaving both Nvidia and Intel to scramble. What will happen? Will Nvidia stick a CPU on the corner of its graphics chip and take a lot of dollars away from Intel in the PC? Intel is betting that something else will happen. In interviews with its researchers, they are confident that graphics processing will naturally shift to the CPU from the GPU. That’s because they believe that the decades-old technique dubbed “ray tracing” will replace the technique of rasterization, or texture-mapping, that modern graphics chips have grown up with" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 On a side note, WCG will begin using spare GPU cycles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 Yeah, I think SETI/BOINC is behind the times on this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 I have been asking for this for awhile, where is a socket GPU I can just upgrade?!?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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