I love how nVIDIA recently retorted to Intel's claims of RayTracing being the future with how it's not actually going to be but GPUs all the way. Then they go and buy a ray tracing company...
Intel: the GPU gives no benefit to non-gamers.
Y'not wrong, Pixar's films can takes days to render just a few minutes of a scene, for example, something with an explosion or the a-like.
acctualy i see them moving to a mix of both, gpu's that are designed to support raytracing as a method to render certen effects, its quite possable they could come up with a gpu that was designed spicificly to run ratrace software on, but it wouldnt be compatable with todays games, so most likely use will be to creat hybrid cards that slowly move that dirrection using a GPU thats designed like todays gpus for s spicific type of prosessing.
and intels raytracing thing,yeah the future 5-10years down the road maby, MABY, but by then cpu's will not look like they do now, i honestly cant see the x86 core as it is now being around that long, alot of the old x86 design is lagacy now rarely used other then for VERY old apps, hence slowly amd and intel are both removing that detocated prosessing power and just running it emulated on other parts of the cpu.
i see VIA headed in the right dirrection, RISC is the future, less complex cpu's that are optimized to run the software thats commonly used, but that are still capable of running other types of software and older software via emulation(sure theres a perf hit, but most of those apps are so old or low power they still run better then they did when they where made)
i would love to see what the k9 would have been, all i heard about it was that it was based on alot of concepts from the dec alpha(designed by the same team) but somebody in management killed the project, and as i hear it the dessission had nothing to do with performance, but the fact that it wasnt based on the k8, it was a new design using RISC insted of CISC(reduced instruction set computeing vs complex instruction set computing) and somebody in management coudnt understand that this was a good thing and would make future development of the cpu FASTER since it was less complex, also would make each core cost less and take up less die space, OR would make more rool for new fetures.
blah, this move to me is equivlant to the idiot at intel that choose to go with netburst over p6 core(pentium pro/p2/p3/pentium-m/core/core-duo/core2 are all based on the P6 design) bone head people who cant let go of stupid thoughts.
worst part was amd lost their head engineer to that because he was pissed about his project being cancled for such a stupid reasion......
and NO the am2 chips are NOT k9, some board makers refer to them as such, but they are NOT a k9 chip, they are a k8 with am2 memory controler PERIOD.
