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Originally posted by: ViRGE
Short answer: Maybe
Long answer: OpenCL really can't be compared to anything else. The fact that the Khronos group finished the spec in record time (they never get anything done quickly) and the fact that Apple is pushing this hard implies that all parties are on board. On the flip side we know AMD needs this a lot more than NVIDIA, so I'm not sure NVIDIA is really behind it. And Microsoft is doing their own thing entirely AFAIK.
We'll see what happens next year.
Originally posted by: taltamir
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Short answer: Maybe
Long answer: OpenCL really can't be compared to anything else. The fact that the Khronos group finished the spec in record time (they never get anything done quickly) and the fact that Apple is pushing this hard implies that all parties are on board. On the flip side we know AMD needs this a lot more than NVIDIA, so I'm not sure NVIDIA is really behind it. And Microsoft is doing their own thing entirely AFAIK.
We'll see what happens next year.
And then intel has their own x86 on GPU thing that they will bring with larabee (and AMD will bring that with fusion... eventually).
This is a format war with so many players that you sometimes forget to LIST all of them.
Originally posted by: Stiganator
With OpenCL as an official standard. Will both companies pick it up, or are they going continue down the same road. I hope we get more info on this implementation soon. It seems like it will be an important thing for every programmer to learn soon.
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: taltamir
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Short answer: Maybe
Long answer: OpenCL really can't be compared to anything else. The fact that the Khronos group finished the spec in record time (they never get anything done quickly) and the fact that Apple is pushing this hard implies that all parties are on board. On the flip side we know AMD needs this a lot more than NVIDIA, so I'm not sure NVIDIA is really behind it. And Microsoft is doing their own thing entirely AFAIK.
We'll see what happens next year.
And then intel has their own x86 on GPU thing that they will bring with larabee (and AMD will bring that with fusion... eventually).
This is a format war with so many players that you sometimes forget to LIST all of them.
I'm not sure the Intel solution will matter for gamers, but system integrators yes.
It all comes down to this folks. When there's a game that is so revolutionary and so genius that you have to have physix or whatever because without it the game is just junk, that will be the time when any of this matters.
Lets face it, you can write all the APIs and wrappers you want and have the hardware available and drivers there, but if no games touch it then the value is 0.
Originally posted by: taltamir
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: taltamir
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Short answer: Maybe
Long answer: OpenCL really can't be compared to anything else. The fact that the Khronos group finished the spec in record time (they never get anything done quickly) and the fact that Apple is pushing this hard implies that all parties are on board. On the flip side we know AMD needs this a lot more than NVIDIA, so I'm not sure NVIDIA is really behind it. And Microsoft is doing their own thing entirely AFAIK.
We'll see what happens next year.
And then intel has their own x86 on GPU thing that they will bring with larabee (and AMD will bring that with fusion... eventually).
This is a format war with so many players that you sometimes forget to LIST all of them.
I'm not sure the Intel solution will matter for gamers, but system integrators yes.
It all comes down to this folks. When there's a game that is so revolutionary and so genius that you have to have physix or whatever because without it the game is just junk, that will be the time when any of this matters.
Lets face it, you can write all the APIs and wrappers you want and have the hardware available and drivers there, but if no games touch it then the value is 0.
there are some guys who are talking about badaboom v1... So far only one person provided benchmarks, but he is saying it cut down encoding time from 11.5 hours to 50 minutes. That is certainly impressive if you are into video encoding (which is one of the chief reason people buy quad cores).
Originally posted by: taltamir
there are some guys who are talking about badaboom v1... So far only one person provided benchmarks, but he is saying it cut down encoding time from 11.5 hours to 50 minutes. That is certainly impressive if you are into video encoding (which is one of the chief reason people buy quad cores).
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Going to be written for STREAM as well which makes it universal. Again, these fancy things don't matter if you don't use it. I don't encode video so it doesn't interest me. I also have no interest in leaving my CPU on 24/7 to fold. For me it has to be valuable in games that I enjoy.