AMD RV790 Architecture To Change GPGPU Landscape? 102
Vigile writes "To many observers, the success of the GPGPU landscape has really been pushed by NVIDIA and its line of Tesla and Quadro GPUs. While ATI was the first to offer support for consumer applications like Folding@Home, NVIDIA has since taken command of the market with its CUDA architecture and programs like Badaboom and others for the HPC world. PC Perspective has speculation that points to ATI addressing the shortcomings of its lineup with a revised GPU known as RV790 that would both dramatically increase gaming performance as well as more than triple the compute power on double precision floating point operations — one of the keys to HPC acceptance."
OpenCL? (Score:4, Interesting)
I hope all these new things will be compatible with OpenCL.
What I want from the GPU (Score:3, Interesting)
Imagine if your VMed OS could believe that it had 100% control of the video card, but your video card would display on it's own 'surface', and still use full hardware acceleration for the process. As far as I can tell, video is the only serious stumbling block left in virtualizing the x86 architecture.
Re:What I want from the GPU (Score:3, Interesting)
VirtualBox is supposed to have started solving this problem. It's beta and still experiemental but if it works well, then it's exactly what I've been looking for as it means I can finally run XP ina Vbox setup under a 64bit Gentoo Linux.