Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

[megawhompertoo]

If you compare the specifications from one of the top of the line gpu's today:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131065

to the specifications of one of the top of the line servers prevalently in use at the turn of the century,
http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-NETSERVER-LH-...QQcmdZViewItem

Putting aside some of the esoteric differences in architecture and processing function, you'll see that todays $500 gaming card is more powerful than an entire $5000 machine dedicated to connecting, updating, and archiving the entirety of the world's knowledge, minus some sheet metal, a floppy drive and some sort of slow, spinning platters for storage. (Maybe throw in a tape drive for backup.)

...and it hasn't even been ten years. It's ridiculous, and I'm looking forward to owning my own server-class gaming card as soon as they drop below the $200 thresh hold.

Shame they never got around to marketing servers as "crossfired" and "sli'd". The IT bubble might've lasted a little while longer, not that I wouldn't have laughed any harder at the notion.

[camper.]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

It's only going to get better. I would never have even dreamed that GFX like Far Cry 2 and Crysis would be the norm, but hey, here they are.

Shame they never got around to marketing servers as "crossfired" and "sli'd". The IT bubble might've lasted a little while longer, not that I wouldn't have laughed any harder at the notion.

They do, it's called a rack :)

[DarkyShines]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

You can only create what you can imagine.

People need to work towards something, no good saying "lets make a new gpu card" without knowing the kind of graphics you want to show.

I suppose you could say we are our own limit, but hey, DX 11 is gonna be sweet. We're already 10% there xD

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

They do, it's called a rack :)

that, sir, lacks marketing flair.

[jesus]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

You can only create what you can imagine.

People need to work towards something, no good saying "lets make a new gpu card" without knowing the kind of graphics you want to show.

I suppose you could say we are our own limit, but hey, DX 11 is gonna be sweet. We're already 10% there xD

DX11 is gonna be sweet? Yeah, but don't forget about Dx10. I played world in conflict demo yesterday on all high settings and the smoke, cloud-shadow effect and lots more were just incredible.

Even effects and textures in Medal of Honor: airborne are really good (downloaded the demo of that, too)

[XavierOwn™]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

Yd D11 is gunna be Swweeeeeettttt !

Also the Airbourne is amazing, so realistic, can you actually fly planes on it?

[jesus]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

I don't think so. You start in the plane and jump out. But you might be able to fly planes. I just have the demo. The retail comes out september 4 (In canada) and starts at $59

[camper.]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38223

10.1 will aim to eliminate some programmability limitations when it comes to the unified shader architecture established in 10, as well as laying down a minimum capability for anti-aliasing in hardware. 4x Multi-Sampling AA will be minimum for 10.1 - although we suspect that there will be many cards that can theoretically tick the box, yet are totally useless at this in practice. The new iteration will also add better support for arrays of textures using cube maps, with the aim of acceleration texture processing.

F*cking finally!

[The Laughing Man]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

Yup just don;t expect your current DX10 card to work with DX10.1

DX10.1 bones DX 10 Cards

[camper.]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

My current DX10 card is my DX9 card

[TheButler208]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

:blabla:but can it route packets as fast as a cisco 3850, NOPE. :banana:

[camper.]

Re: Technology is ridiculous. I love it.

Very hard to beat something that doesn't exist