Quad Core? Not enough, how about 960!

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  1. Posts : 4
    Windows Vista x86 SP1
       #11

    darkassain said:
    but i would love to have one of these for rendering (CAD+Videos(hd))
    IN REAL TIME...
    now that WOULD BE AWESOME
    pls adobe/autodesk make it possible....

    (maybe cryptographic brute forcing....
    a la wpa2 encryption...lol (of course my network...lol))

    And thats excatly right...

    Cad renders much faster and these could be used in a render farm as well...

    Oh adobe has already done that in CS4 all you need is a 8800GT card or higher and it used that for near real time work

    Oh and those are can be used for that... alot quicker as well you should do some googleing
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  2. Posts : 2,588
    SEVEN x64
       #12

    ''THERE MUST BE A WAY'' to utilize telsa's sheer rendering power for gaming, even if it was used as a dedicated physics card (an expensive one i know)

    from what i can gather, & i maybe way of the mark but i think the telsa takes over the CPU calculations in the 2D environment

    so in theory this would replace your CPU ??, i refuse to believe that their raw power cant be used in some way to benefit complex game images.


    :)SK
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  3. Posts : 4
    Windows Vista x86 SP1
       #13

    skunksmash said:
    ''THERE MUST BE A WAY'' to utilize telsa's sheer rendering power for gaming, even if it was used as a dedicated physics card (an expensive one i know)

    from what i can gather, & i maybe way of the mark but i think the telsa takes over the CPU calculations in the 2D environment

    so in theory this would replace your CPU ??, i refuse to believe that their raw power cant be used in some way to benefit complex game images.


    :)SK
    Ok so ill start with the physics card... Ok a 8600GT has enough power to calcuate the physx in game because they dont require a large amount of calcuations and shader cores which is what Telsa use work a different way..

    ok so think of a Telsa as a card with thousnads of little cpus on it calcuating one massive task but the thing is it can only run certian code not X86 code which is machine code it runs a special programming lanuage CUDA but it cant really render a 3d scene because well it has no proper GPU its only shader cores...

    Therefore the tasks it can do are really super fast but the ones it arent programmed to do are just as slow as a cpu...

    so yes it kind of does take the role of a cpu but with much more power but cant be used for anywhere near as much.

    Hope this helps
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  4. Posts : 2,899
    Windows 7 Ult x64(x2), HomePrem x32(x4), Server 08 (+VM), 08 R2 (VM) , SuSe 11.2 (VM), XP 32 (VM)
       #14

    skunksmash said:
    ''THERE MUST BE A WAY'' to utilize telsa's sheer rendering power for gaming, even if it was used as a dedicated physics card (an expensive one i know)

    from what i can gather, & i maybe way of the mark but i think the telsa takes over the CPU calculations in the 2D environment

    so in theory this would replace your CPU ??, i refuse to believe that their raw power cant be used in some way to benefit complex game images.


    :)SK
    not unless you can code EVERY game you have in C (forgot which iteration but dammit i know its a C language) that is CUDA aware... (or the game manufactures has a physics but yeah it possible as for a hacked versions i wont even go there...lol
    other than that there is no possibility
    as the drivers dont make it possible at this time...
    if someone somehow reverse enginered the drivers thats another story...
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  5. Posts : 2,588
    SEVEN x64
       #15

    CHEERS GUYS!!.....

    that had been bugging me for quite a while..


    :)SK
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  6. Posts : 2,899
    Windows 7 Ult x64(x2), HomePrem x32(x4), Server 08 (+VM), 08 R2 (VM) , SuSe 11.2 (VM), XP 32 (VM)
       #16

    ThePwnStar said:
    Ok so ill start with the physics card... Ok a 8600GT has enough power to calcuate the physx in game because they dont require a large amount of calcuations and shader cores which is what Telsa use work a different way..

    ok so think of a Telsa as a card with thousnads of little cpus on it calcuating one massive task but the thing is it can only run certian code not X86 code which is machine code it runs a special programming lanuage CUDA but it cant really render a 3d scene because well it has no proper GPU its only shader cores...

    Therefore the tasks it can do are really super fast but the ones it arent programmed to do are just as slow as a cpu...

    so yes it kind of does take the role of a cpu but with much more power but cant be used for anywhere near as much.

    Hope this helps
    well it can be possible ala parallel computing where each core does some it in small steps... it reminds me of RISC computing...lol
    it can be possible if the driver supported that (but IMAGINE the overhead for such an application and to be able to synchronize them perfectly )
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  7. Posts : 4
    Windows Vista x86 SP1
       #17

    darkassain said:
    well it can be possible ala parallel computing where each core does some it in small steps... it reminds me of RISC computing...lol
    it can be possible if the driver supported that (but IMAGINE the overhead for such an application and to be able to synchronize them perfectly )
    lol yeh pretty much thats why they do thier thing kind of without interfernce... there are farms of them but they are working on one part each so not nesscairly have to be synced...

    They would be great for that kind fo stuff hopefully they find thier way into medical etc
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  8. Posts : 2,899
    Windows 7 Ult x64(x2), HomePrem x32(x4), Server 08 (+VM), 08 R2 (VM) , SuSe 11.2 (VM), XP 32 (VM)
       #18

    ThePwnStar said:
    lol yeh pretty much thats why they do thier thing kind of without interfernce... there are farms of them but they are working on one part each so not nesscairly have to be synced...

    They would be great for that kind fo stuff hopefully they find thier way into medical etc

    but i mean for gaming??
    the sheer overhead breathtaking to say the least (meaning for gaming) to synchronize every core and to truly multitask by hearing some of the cores prerender them...
    well its been nice discussion
    cheers
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  9. Posts : 4,364
    Windows 11 21H2 Current build
       #19

    I'd rather make use of it to do something really kewl like Robotics competition....imagine, being able to write real code that could make robots track objects and obstacles in real time....
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  10. Posts : 2,899
    Windows 7 Ult x64(x2), HomePrem x32(x4), Server 08 (+VM), 08 R2 (VM) , SuSe 11.2 (VM), XP 32 (VM)
       #20

    johngalt said:
    I'd rather make use of it to do something really kewl like Robotics competition....imagine, being able to write real code that could make robots track objects and obstacles in real time....
    yep very powerful and guess what:
    it works in linux!!!
    great to see companies not avoiding the linux scene...
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