Interesting article at DH. Interview with Nvidia's Software Product Manager.

[Keysplayr]

Linkage

I wonder if this means that Windows 7 will have direct access to GPU shaders for certain tasks, apps, games, without having to go through the API?

 

[WelshBloke]

DH: What is the next big thing for GeForce drivers? Any new features you can detail?


Chris: Unfortunately we can?t talk about unannounced products but I will tell you that we have some cool new features coming in an April driver for GeForce customers.

Yay its my tray icon isnt it?

:thumbsup: on their Win7 support though.

 

[chizow]

I'm betting Ambient Occlusion comes in April, as it was originally leaked months ago in the 185 betas. As for Win 7 features he can't talk about, Derek also hinted at better multi-threaded performance in Win 7 although both Nvidia and AMD have publicly stated gains in this area with Vista/DX10. As for DX Compute and CUDA support, looks good, but not surprising at all given how advanced CUDA already is.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Linkage

I wonder if this means that Windows 7 will have direct access to GPU shaders for certain tasks, apps, games, without having to go through the API?

Wasn't the big thing that the next DirectX will include GPGPU?

 

[nosfe]

are you sure that he's an engineer? because he sounded more like a marketing person to me, especially the part where he explained CUDA in "layman?s terms"

 

[magreen]

Holy $@-* that was an annoying interview. I stopped reading it 1/3 way through, and felt like throwing up after the first sentence. What a bs piece of marketing. Was there any actual info in the interview or was it all spin? "You can kill all 100 enemies at once with an nvidia gpu." Blow me.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: magreen
Holy $@-* that was an annoying interview. I stopped reading it 1/3 way through, and felt like throwing up after the first sentence. What a bs piece of marketing. Was there any actual info in the interview or was it all spin? "You can kill all 100 enemies at once with an nvidia gpu." Blow me.

Actually his example was dead on. A CPU really does do things 1 step at a time. A GPU really does do hundreds of things at one time. A GPU really is 100x faster than a CPU (for certain tasks). folding stats

Overall it's not a bad article. It gives at least some explanation of where they're planning to go with GPGPU. The only part that pissed me off is when the guy indirectly blamed Microsoft for Nvidia writing shitty drivers:

"[Windows 7] just feels zippier to me and [Microsoft has] worked out most of the complaints that people had with Vista."

Most of the complaints people had? You mean like how 1/3 of blue screen crashes were caused by Nvidia drivers? The complaint about how Vista's performance in games was absolutely horrible for the first year until Nvidia stopped making such shitty drivers?

"Also, starting next month, each Vista driver release will have an equivalent Windows 7 driver release ? same feature support, same great game support."

Good. This means we won't have a repeat of the XP to Vista transition.

are you sure that he's an engineer? because he sounded more like a marketing person to me, especially the part where he explained CUDA in "layman?s terms"

The article never said he was an engineer. It says "Chris Daniel (Software Product Manager)".
Product Manager sounds like a marketing job.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: magreen
Holy $@-* that was an annoying interview. I stopped reading it 1/3 way through, and felt like throwing up after the first sentence. What a bs piece of marketing. Was there any actual info in the interview or was it all spin? "You can kill all 100 enemies at once with an nvidia gpu." Blow me.

You mean, you took that example literally? LMAOOO......
That was a way for this guy to explain, in laymans terms, the difference between CPU and GPU workloads, NOT actually killing 100 enemies at one time.

Thanks for the chuckle!!! :thumbsup:

 

[magreen]

No, why would you think I took it literally?

That wasn't an explanation in laymen's terms. It was an explanation for a retarded 2nd grader.

And that was just one example... the whole article reeked of vastly overspun generalizations meant to blind rather than inform the reader. Especially that segment supposedly clearing up misconceptions about cuda being closed or open. It had zero explanations or details or meaningful information. Just a claim that a list of names can be integrated with cuda. It just reeks of half-truths and obfuscations.

Really Keys, I don't know what got into you to post that interview as if it had some groundbreaking information in it.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: magreen
No, why would you think I took it literally?

That wasn't an explanation in laymen's terms. It was an explanation for a retarded 2nd grader.

And that was just one example... the whole article reeked of vastly overspun generalizations meant to blind rather than inform the reader. Especially that segment supposedly clearing up misconceptions about cuda being closed or open. It had zero explanations or details or meaningful information. Just a claim that a list of names can be integrated with cuda. It just reeks of half-truths and obfuscations.

Really Keys, I don't know what got into you to post that interview as if it had some groundbreaking information in it.

For starters, the way you reacted comes to mind.

So you're having trouble with the face value of the interview, ok got that.

Who said groundbreaking? I said "Interesting" in the thread topic, because I though it "was" interesting. Any particular reason you're going into orbit over this?

Does "Interesting article a DH. Interview with Nvidia's Software Product Manager", sound like, "Earthshattering breakthrough as Nvidia and MS join forces to totally dominate the universe!!!!" to you?

Cause it really doesn't....................

 

[magreen]

Fair enough. Maybe I did overreact a little. I'll calm down now. sorry.

Maybe I just hoped the article would have more to it... I was also going on that you linked to this thread from that other nvidia x86 thread in the cpu forums, so I thought the article would be a big deal...

and this might sound weird, but I think maybe it's partially because I respect you that I expected this article to be really special. :beer:
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Plus, the article was really annoying.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: magreen
Fair enough. Maybe I did overreact a little. I'll calm down now. sorry.

Maybe I just hoped the article would have more to it... I was also going on that you linked to this thread from that other nvidia x86 thread in the cpu forums, so I thought the article would be a big deal...

and this might sound weird, but I think maybe it's partially because I respect you that I expected this article to be really special. :beer:
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Plus, the article was really annoying.

It's all good bud. :thumbsup:

And yeah, I linked to this thread for another poster who didn't really know what MS had planned on doing from a previous discussion.