Can't integrated cards be made to...

Ok, so why can't they make integrated cards feed off of quad cores?
Granted that quads are not cheap enough to be in every computer, and ram is not either to ge t 6ish GB...

but in the future, why can't the CPU and ram act as a graphics card? rake one or 2 cores of the processor, and 2 of the 6gb of ram... and there you go...

can any one explain why they couldn't make something like this?

 

I've read an article that had discussed about this topic before. I think it's called "The Impending CPU/GPU Fusion". Should search that up, it's an interesting topic. They talk about incorporating graphics processors on the CPU die.

 

The article that I read regarding this very topic (no links, so take it for what it's worth) was stating that this will start to gain attention when CPU's are around the 8-core point.

There are numerous articles on this as well, just buy using Google. It looks as if possibly AMD will be leading this movement (with them owning ATI)...

 

ok, ill look around...

yea... AMD needs to do something.. they are kinda screwed


but yea... i was thinking about this last night, and it sounded liek a good idea to me

 

Dunno..... sounds pretty futuristic to me.

I mean, we know that the technology incorporated in a GPU is different from the ones in a CPU, right? So, while blending these two together might be possible, I don't think anything like that would happen in the next five years.

 

Because the bus between the CPU and RAM is pathetic as far as bandwidth and speed required for 3D graphics.

 

Because its what business about.

 

Hmm.... now I wonder if they could make a multi-core GPU.....

 

How about SLI in the new combined chipset? Now that would be massive.

 

Eventually as memory and designs become more efficient, and limits are overcome/bypassed, and we might have things like biomass processors that could actually make such efficiency possible, the GPU, CPU, and even the RAM will no longer have a reason to be separate components, at least as far as memory is concerned.

 

if a dual core CPU let you run multiple programs at a same time, a dual core GPU would do the same thing, but what's the point of playing multiple games at the same time?

 

RAM will likely die off when SSD's become the norm.

 

No. It will offer increased performance when running a single game.

Just like dual core cpu's offer increased performance on a single app as well.

 

Are you aware how much faster RAM is compared to SSD??

Here's a comparison.

DDR3-1333 can reach 8-9GB measured bandwidth with a good controller. Write reaches 60-70% of read speeds.

SSD achieves 250MB read and 170MB write(currently the fastest 2.5 inch drive, X25-E)

SSDs have typically 50-100 microseconds of latency. RAM latency measures in 50-100 nanoseconds.

30-50x higher bandwidth and 1000x lower latency is what RAM offers. SSDs will never get there.