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AMD turns up the heat on Nvidia's GPGPUs

I actually read it (:rolleyes:) and it was a bit of a non-story. That mountain of text was definitely not needed to convey "AMD/ATi have realised/admitted they need to put more effort in to GPGPU computing".
 
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It looks like some massive damage, don't ya lot think so?

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And a video for the lulz:

 
It does appear to be a very roundabout way of saying that despite all of the problems with Nvidia's new graphics cards (heat output, chip size and performance per watt) their promotion of CUDA and AMD's relative lethargy in promoting OpenCL has given Nvidia the opportunity to insinuate CUDA as the industry standard, and therefore give them a foothold over AMD as the dominant purveyor or technology for High performance computing via the GPGU.

It shows that not all of the proprietary software Nvidia bundles with it's cards are useless. CUDA is quite widely used and may well become the industry standard, especially considering it's versatility.

Now, if only they could do that with Physx...
 
CUDA is an industry standard its just not an "open" industry standard. There are many fields who swear by it for its robustness, support and documentation.



On another note:

theinquirer.net said:
According to Harrell, the need for ECC is mitigated by testing done in AMD's labs prior to shipping boards but equally as important, she claims that should AMD incorporate ECC support it would "lose performance per watt benefit". Harrell adds that it is a "reasonable assumption" that enabling ECC results in a higher power draw, a claim that is borne out by looking at published research papers. Meanwhile Nvidia claims that ECC is not only vital but has "negligible impact" on power usage.
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You won't break into professional industries, especially financial and some areas of science/medicine without ECC support. Which tend to be the areas the drive trends for this kinda processing. (that said most of those kinda industries probably won't be moving away from bespoke IBM setups any time soon).
 
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After reading the entire article, I am unconvinced it is deserving of that title..
I mean, all they were basically saying was that the reason for Nvidia's dominance of the GPGPU accelerator market wasn't by chance or even due to the firm's own actions. The truth is, AMD simply didn't take using GPUs for HPC seriously.

Or thats how I interpreted it..
 
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