Comment Re:IT makes me wonder.. (Score 1) 234
Yes, however only until GPUs start taking advantage of the same technology and optimize it for graphics.
Check out Stanford's IMAGINE stream processor, and corresponding software implementation of OpenGL.
They took a massively parallel architecture and optimized the communication between the ALUs, resulting in performance which competes with older GPUs in terms of graphics performance, using a general purpose multiprocessor.
And this was two years ago, by a small crew of highly talented academics with limited resources.
Just think what big megacorps like Sony, and IBM could do....
Check out Stanford's IMAGINE stream processor, and corresponding software implementation of OpenGL.
They took a massively parallel architecture and optimized the communication between the ALUs, resulting in performance which competes with older GPUs in terms of graphics performance, using a general purpose multiprocessor.
And this was two years ago, by a small crew of highly talented academics with limited resources.
Just think what big megacorps like Sony, and IBM could do....
