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580 GTX Price is up....

TonyM16 said:
I got that email too, 399 for gtx580, preorder. However if you super depserate there is a way to get your grubby hands on a 580 right now!

The same shop also sells ready made systems with 580s in them already, and they are all ready to ship for £999, if you just want the card, just strip the pc when you get it, sell of the parts, and keep the 580.
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Lol'd
 
Also got email
TBH, i've ordered from these guys before & seem ok, if a little expensive.

I take it the NDA has expired & if so........

OCUK, get your finger out, my pockets are on fire:D
 
opethdisciple said:
I bet they used a super computer to run that demo!!
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A massively parallel floating point architecture like a GPU would be far more suitable for this kind of particle-based simulation than a CPU-driven supercomputer.

I'm pretty sure this is rendered in real-time using a GPU (or two..).


Also, this demo looks a lot more impressive than the "infinite city" demo :) But then I'm a sucker for real-time fluids simulations, since I spend a lot of my time running CFD models that can take days or weeks to compute!
 
Tom|Nbk said:
So how much faster is this new card supposed to be in real world gaming?
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10-15% over a 480.

Nvidia are being selective over which sites get a card also, so either cards are very scarce, or they want to guarantee favourable reviews. Notice they aren't doing their usual marketing on their site also? Such are the "Are you ready?" campaign?
 
opethdisciple said:
You didnt click the link did you?

That Super computer is powered by 2000 Nvidia tesla gpus's!
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I read this:

wikipedia said:
Tianhe-1 was powered by 4,096 Intel Xeon E5540 processors and 1,024 Intel Xeon E5450 processors, with 5,120 AMD graphics processing units (GPUs), which were made up of 2,560 dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards
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And figured that 4870x2s wouldn't be too much use for a CUDA-based tessellation simulation...
 
Thats the first generation one!

Sorry 7000 Nvidia Tesla GPU's:

Tianhe-1A

In October 2010, Tianhe-1A, a separate supercomputer, was unveiled at HPC 2010 China.[11] It is now equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. 2,048 NUDT FT1000 heterogeneous processors are also installed in the system, but their computing power was not counted into the machine's official Linpack statistics as of October 2010.[12] Tianhe-1A has a theoretical peak performance of 4.701 petaflops.[13]
 
opethdisciple said:
Thats the first generation one!

Sorry 7000 Nvidia Tesla GPU's:

Tianhe-1A

In October 2010, Tianhe-1A, a separate supercomputer, was unveiled at HPC 2010 China.[11] It is now equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. 2,048 NUDT FT1000 heterogeneous processors are also installed in the system, but their computing power was not counted into the machine's official Linpack statistics as of October 2010.[12] Tianhe-1A has a theoretical peak performance of 4.701 petaflops.[13]
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Each one of those gpu's is a monster: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tesla_M2050_M2070_us.html
 
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