Originally posted by: Shmee
talking about feature sets, has ATI come up with something that folds well yet? Just wondering.
Yeah, about two years ago.
Originally posted by: Shmee
talking about feature sets, has ATI come up with something that folds well yet? Just wondering.
Originally posted by: uclaLabrat
a supercomputer that lacks an app is nothing but a space heater.
Originally posted by: konakona
Originally posted by: Keysplayr
Originally posted by: konakona
Originally posted by: Keysplayr
Originally posted by: Astrallite
In other words, NVIDIA innovation: Batman, Arkham Asylum.
Is that all you think they've done in the last 3 years?
I see you fold. But I would wager 90%+ of gamers could care less, let alone half of them knowing what it is to begin with. I don't see anyone (read: gamers, the majority that buy these discrete video cards) really putting CUDA to a good use. I guess it's about as useless as DX11 is at this point.
Physx is probably about the only thing that **might** matter, and again at the time being it is far from being the decisive factor to the most.
Nvidia isn't "just" about gaming anymore. And when I say that, it doesn't "lessen" their gaming focus. They sought to augment their product so it could penetrate a much wider market than just gaming. They now practically have a supercomputer on a chip.
You mentioned Batman:AA, and Folding. Millions fold world wide that don't have a clue about gaming either. They just know they can help fight cancer, faster, if they use GPU's in addendum to their CPU's. I'm not going to go through the whole list man. That would take hours. Just visit Nvidia's site in the CUDA section. All I'm sayin is, "It 'aint just Batman and Folding."
I will totally agree with you "now" that gamers won't put CUDA to good use. But Microsoft will "for" them with Win7 and beyond.. Direct Compute. OpenCL. Soon, it may not even be a conscious thing by the user to utilize GPU power.
I am actually quite excited about the their Tegra stuff, probably not alone at that. They should make an i-pod killer with that.