News on 500 series

For folders that paper figure of a 37 odd per cent increase in performance over a 460 is up for debate, since F@H is known to scale poorly with greater shader counts. Just look at the current 4xx family PPD league and it is all pretty close with frequency/efficiency remaining, for the most part, king.

Still, would be exciting to get a hold of one, or two, or three in the middle of next month :D I am hopeful for a tri-sli for this range yet! Let's hope the green team do not punish the consumer with yet another x65 card, too.
 
What id like to see is Stanford/AMD get their collective thumbs out and get ATI gpus folding effiicently :(
 
Ahh, the dream will never die. One day! I am baffled that such educated men and technology gurus cannot pull together to finally separate the scientific and execution code, perhaps making the execution architecture a plugin based affair open to community contribution and improvement. If it must remain closed source, at least kit manufacturers could work on the execution plugins and Stanford could focus on the science and credit control. Bets are on OpenCL to pave the way for such a glorious future, but little concrete news on actual progress so far.
 
It's all about the politics isn't it. They probably could have done it years ago if they really wanted to.
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Yep, which is a shame for the general positive cause it would enhance. I own both brands of GPUs, and am more than happy to donate the maximum each can dish out to projects like F@H, so if there is extra untapped computing power - use it! Politicking with charity is a self-defeating project.
 
SiriusB said:
It's all about the politics isn't it. They probably could have done it years ago if they really wanted to.
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Not really, I'd put it down to money more than anything else. It is after all what makes the world go around! ;)
 
Heh..

Agree its not just politics? But its not just money either, and university politics is really about money anyway :)

Lets see:
  • Huang was a Stanford graduate from 1992
  • 2006 ATI Folding client is released
  • 2008 (April) NVIDIA sponsored the New Stanford Parallel Computing Research Lab
  • 2008 (September) Nvidia Folding client is released (work stops on ATI folding client effectively)
  • 2009 NVIDIA announce that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department, will join the company as Chief Scientist and Vice President of NVIDIA Research.
  • Stanford Dedicates the New Huang Engineering Center in 2010 (Huang CEO of NVidia donated $30 million to the building) with its very own 300 seat "NVIDIA Auditorium"
 
Biffa said:
Heh..

Agree its not just politics? But its not just money either, and university politics is really about money anyway :)

Lets see:
  • Huang was a Stanford graduate from 1992
  • 2006 ATI Folding client is released
  • 2008 (April) NVIDIA sponsored the New Stanford Parallel Computing Research Lab
  • 2008 (September) Nvidia Folding client is released (work stops on ATI folding client effectively)
  • 2009 NVIDIA announce that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department, will join the company as Chief Scientist and Vice President of NVIDIA Research.
  • Stanford Dedicates the New Huang Engineering Center in 2010 (Huang CEO of NVidia donated $30 million to the building) with its very own 300 seat "NVIDIA Auditorium"
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Well I never! Shocking, but hey thats life for ya

Stelly
 
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