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    Some interesting gaming information...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dtmcnamara, Mar 30, 2010.

  1. dtmcnamara

    dtmcnamara Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok so the new GTX series just came out and I decided to look at specs. Well damn they suck, but there was something interesting that I saw. I have a build going on using the new Tesla C2050 cards, and I noticed that specs wise the Tesla cards and the GTX cards were very similar...almost too similar

    Well I decided to start looking. I found out, and some of you guys might have too, that the new GTX 4xx series cards are ok cards with todays games, but they are relying on future games to offload processing power to the GPU.

    Being the guy I am i laughed and figured that this was never going to happen, I mean seriously come on.....well I was wrong. I just got off the phone with my AMD/Radeon rep and they confirmed that their next gen cards will do the same thing.

    SOOOO....what does this mean? You will not have to build a new computer every time a bad games comes out, just pop the GPU out and put something a little better in.

    My question is, do you guys think this is going to work well? AND, do you think this will slow down the CPU race for more and faster processors since we will be going for better parallel GPUs?
     
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    Sources please...
     
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    dtmcnamara Notebook Enthusiast

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    http://hd.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1028885

    Has a little info about the CUDA cores in the GPU. Shows that it will work well with GPU accelerated applications, which will be the newer games soon.

    Let me see if I can find, or if anyone else can, the article about new games offloading onto the GPU more than CPU
     
    dtmcnamara, Mar 30, 2010
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