How far will technology go?

[aznman]

I am not speaking of actual stats(high test scores or high fps) im talking about what we actually see in the monitor. How much further can technology increase to were we will see games better with the GPUs we have now and the ones we will have in the near future. Im talking about dramatic increases. Don't u think with games like hl2 and what not that we have reached the bounderies? Do you think your 6800gt or x800 pro will ever be usless to new games in the future? Just curious on your thoughts.

 

[MadAd]

utterly useless

IMO why stop until we get fully photorealistic gaming? Isnt that where we are heading? Itll need a few more leaps in technology b4 we get near that tho.

 

[MadEye2]

Graphics cards manufacturers force software developers to produce processor intensive games games, and it's steadily getting worse. This is why so many new PC games are "pretty" but ultimately shallow and cliche - software developers aren't given the chance to develop new ideas but instead have to focus on the visuals.

 

[Cawchy87]

photonics will make all previous computing usless. Data transfer at the speed of light and no heat problems. Now that would be nice.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

We're a technological limit right now. We can't speed chips up much higher. That's why everything on the horizon is SLI and multi-core processors. The next 5 years or so will be "Hmm...how can we chain together more and more processors." About five years from now, there will be another revolutionary leap allowing 50X faster chips and things will start to get scary.

 

[snerdini]

Anyone ever heard of using DNA as a replacement for a microchip? I did a little research on this a few years ago for a paper I was writing for school - apparently it has a slower "clock speed", but can process many many more instructions symmetrically, making it multiple times faster than a microchip-based processor (if you can harness that power, of course).

 

[MadEye2]

If things do go carbon though it'll get rid of some of the limitations and chips will be far cheaper, though probably not for the consumer