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Send message Joined: 6 Apr 08 Posts: 2018 Credit: 100,142,856 RAC: 0 |
And that will continue to scale, the new ATI HD5870 should easily double the performance of a HD4890 at Milkyway. And when the next nvidia generation arrives, I'm quite sure it will do much more than to double the DP performance of a GTX285 ;) Holy Batman! So I've just spent months building up a nice credit total with my farm of ATIs, and then the new ATIs/nvidias come along and just one of them will get the same credit total in five minutes <wow> ;) |
Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0 |
And that will continue to scale, the new ATI HD5870 should easily double the performance of a HD4890 at Milkyway. And when the next nvidia generation arrives, I'm quite sure it will do much more than to double the DP performance of a GTX285 ;) As it has always been... I remember having a single core and dreaming of the day when I would get dual cores, then quads, now I have mostly i7s and dream of i9s with 12 instead of 8 CPUs ... 3 PCI slots instead of 2 so I can add more GPUs even if they are not the fastest GPUs around ... it will still be more cores ... Of course, by then I will be dreaming of 16 cores ... :) |
Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
Well I remember when I had my Radio Shack Model 1 clone, Z-80 @ 1.0MHz, and a friend turned up one day with a soldering iron and knife, cut a couple of tracks and soldered a couple of connections, and suddenly it was running at 1.5MHz. Gee, that was fast. Also, no bios overclocking in those days. Cheers, PeterV . |
Send message Joined: 31 Mar 08 Posts: 61 Credit: 18,325,284 RAC: 0 |
That's why other projects are "whining" about the overpay at MW. For most of them it's just impossible to utilize the hardware to this extent. It's not just about being lazy programmers - the algorithm and the problem itself don't allow it. They could never achieve the same Flop/s even if they made an ATI app. Far be it that I'd like to start a flame war. Maybe this analogy is appropriate, maybe not. But lets suppose I'm running Crysis and get 10 FPS (Credit or WU), and I'm running another game and get 100 FPS. For the sake of argument lets suppose in both scenarios the CPU is 0% and the GPU is at 100%. My point? Not sure exactly, just making an analogy. I can imagine a boinc future where GPU users will cry foul for quantum computer owners running quantuamilly optimzed apps. :P |
Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0 |
Maybe this analogy is appropriate, maybe not. But lets suppose I'm running Crysis and get 10 FPS (Credit or WU), and I'm running another game and get 100 FPS. For the sake of argument lets suppose in both scenarios the CPU is 0% and the GPU is at 100%. 100 feet per second ... yeah that will be pretty hard to catch up to ... do you think at that speed it will still be able to miss the walls? |
Send message Joined: 1 Sep 08 Posts: 204 Credit: 219,354,537 RAC: 0 |
Far be it that I'd like to start a flame war. Yeah, I didn't think so either. But it just happens far too easily on these forums. MrS Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 |
Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
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