Thursday, April 1st 2010
NVIDIA CUDA Emulator for every PC
NVIDIA's CUDA GPU compute API could be making its way to practically every PC, with an NVIDIA GPU in place, or not. A chinese freelance developer has coded a means to get CUDA work as a middleware on OpenCL. This move lets CUDA work on ATI Radeon GPUs that support OpenCL, as well as x86 CPUs, since OpenCL specs allow the API to run on CPUs for development purposes. The implications of these are many:
DOWNLOAD: CUDA Emulator Loader
This development could also have its implications on the industry, as not very long ago developers at NGOHQ.com successfully ran PhysX on ATI Radeon GPUs. Something NVIDIA didn't object to, seeing it as an opportunity to propagate PhysX and maybe highlight better performance on GeForce GPUs. AMD cold-shouldered that development and later announced its own plans to develop GPU physics processing with Havoc. The developer wishes to remain anonymous till such legal issues are ironed out. It was originally posted at jishuyi.com.cn, a Chinese techsite, which doesn't seem to be reachable outside of the PRC - probably by China's protective networks. We will shortly publish a comprehensive review of CUDA performance on ATI Radeon GPUs.
Source:
Jinshuyi.com.cn
- Letting CUDA-accelerated software such as Badaboom make use of ATI GPUs
- Letting PhysX run on ATI GPUs as PhysX middleware uses CUDA for GPU acceleration
- Possibly better scaling of PhysX on multi-core CPUs (over OpenCL), as the regular PhysX CPU acceleration is infamous for bad multi-core scaling in performance
DOWNLOAD: CUDA Emulator Loader
This development could also have its implications on the industry, as not very long ago developers at NGOHQ.com successfully ran PhysX on ATI Radeon GPUs. Something NVIDIA didn't object to, seeing it as an opportunity to propagate PhysX and maybe highlight better performance on GeForce GPUs. AMD cold-shouldered that development and later announced its own plans to develop GPU physics processing with Havoc. The developer wishes to remain anonymous till such legal issues are ironed out. It was originally posted at jishuyi.com.cn, a Chinese techsite, which doesn't seem to be reachable outside of the PRC - probably by China's protective networks. We will shortly publish a comprehensive review of CUDA performance on ATI Radeon GPUs.
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NVIDIA's Fermi finds a new use
Today our moles were hard at work. They have uncovered a couple of rumors for you to gobble up with your chocolate bunnies and peeps. The first concerns our old friends at NVIDIA. The rumor here is that they have decided to take Fermi GPU's that do not pass QA at any acceptable speeds and resell them to Matel for their new model of Easy Bake Oven.
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Great guys, those Nvidia executives.
I don't have an ATI card so I can't test this, but my 9800 GX2 gets around 375 MHash/sec for each core at worst, which is quite a lot more than what your higher-clocked and higher-specced 5870 is getting. So evidently there's quite a performance hit running on ATI; could you post your performance using the BarsWF ATI/Brook executable so we can see exactly how much of a hit?
I'd be more likely for ATi to sue and get all hot under the collar than nVidia at this news...Yep, they did it as a direct response to ATi's unwillingness to do basic things to help and threats of lawsuits for hacking their drivers.
Of course all the people that went on about how PhysX sucked anyway and ATi users didn't want it or need it when the hack was released, were also the same people that bitched and moaned when nVidia locked it completely with ATi hardware present...hey weren't you one of those people...:D
I thought for sure it was an April Fool's Joke, I was dead wrong :banghead:
...nvm... I hate my life.
Yes you guys are so funny though. Next time you should link to a virus instead that would be even more funny.
I love the bit where you tell people they need to uninstall Physx and go to another version. Good way to waste peoples time!
and for you who doubt it, don't fell for it, it's actually work, and ignore what other said(just because it's 1 April it doesn't mean this was fake) , just try it, you won't regret it:toast: