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what do you think the future of gpu's will hold?

whipgeez

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just a random question really

maybe in the future we'll have organic components intergrated into circuit boards, like parts of the eye and processing part of the brain somehow intergrated to the board with a nervous system wire instead of traditional hdmi or dvi to the monitor

before you ask, yes i am a little bored lol

so what's peoples thoughts on the future of graphics for pc's?
 
Zefan said:
Faster, bigger and hotter. That's about it :p
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This, coupled with smaller and smaller die sizes and eventually the complete abandonment of them when quantum computing comes into fruition.

In the next decade though we'll probably see 2ghz+ cores, 8ghz+ GDDR speeds, 5k+ shaders, 7 billion+ transistor counts and most likely separate core components for depth of field, shadows and tessellation to name a few.
 
They'll merge and collide with the CPU to become the APU. Then 1000 years later we'll have them implanted and become the Borg :p.
 
Lower end GPU's will die out pretty fast, as they become integrated onto the CPU. System on a chip is the way it's going long term.
 
Home consumer GPU market (PC's and consoles) will slowly die out (I'd say next two console generations are the last) and GPU's will only exist on server farms.

The games will run on these servers and stream the game imagery to ARM based TV's, pads and boxes where we subscribe to content in the cloud for all games and services.

Less waste, more environmentally friendly, no second hand market and complete control to the companies of how we spend and where the money goes. But much more dull for us hardware enthusiasts. :(

It will happen; it's only a matter of time!
 
^ sounds good, but no fun in building :'( personally, i think pc's will be around for ALONG time still... and only till we get to teleportation and stuff they will be replaced by cool wrist things ;) like pip boys ;) and pc's willl get smaller and faster :D
 
Hmm, lets hope quantum computing isn't the general computing equivalent of nVidia Physx boards!. I remember how those were supposed to revolutionise gaming! :D

Perhaps these new computers will run Crysis & Operation Arrowhead at decent frame rates?!
 
MatteH Oxford said:
Hmm, lets hope quantum computing isn't the general computing equivalent of nVidia Physx boards!. I remember how those were supposed to revolutionise gaming! :D

Perhaps these new computers will run Crysis & Operation Arrowhead at decent frame rates?!
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Haha true with the first bit although nvidia shot themselves in the foot with physx with their old fashioned policy of nvidia only implementation, which made a lot of games developers simply ignore it basically due to why code for something which less than 50% of the gaming population will own and use?

I'm not convinced with the whole cloud idea yet, even though it will happen at some point in the distant future. Problem with it is bandwidth as it would rely on networking (probably internet) to make it work in the first place and the UK just doesn't have the infrastructure for it at all.
 
You may be right James J, but they will probably use an awesome real time compression method to make better use of bandwidth.

I just look how far we've come in twenty odd years - from Vic 20's to todays tech. Two more console generations after this one takes us to about 15 years forward. I think we will see a huge change by then. Everything is being forced to change for many different reasons, even now. The tech already exists, and bandwidth issues will be solved.

I'll still be using my dedicated hardware as a hobby regardless - it's more fun to actually handle and build things.
 
spirits247 said:
You may be right James J, but they will probably use an awesome real time compression method.

I just look how far we've come in twenty odd years - from Vic 20's to todays tech. Two more console generations after this one takes us to about 15 years forward. I think we will see a huge change by then. Everything is being forced to change for many different reasons, even now. The tech already exists, and bandwidth issues will be solved.

I'll still be using my dedicated hardware as a hobby regardless - it's more fun to actually handle and build things.
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Yeah your probably right and time will tell
 
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