Carmack gives "Kiss of Death" to PPU's

Vikingod · Jul 20, 2007, 02:59 AM

Source: Neoseeker
_____________
When speaking to "BootDaily" John Carmack apparently told them that dedicated physics cards don't really add anything to a multi-core system that the CPU's and GPU's can't already do. I wonder if Aegia's stock dropped on this news?

Granted, John wants GPU's to become more general purpose, with finer grained scheduling and context switching, however in the last few years we've definitely observed a trend of increasing GPU processors which are becoming more general purpose with time - witness the 320 stream processors in the 2900XT and the 128 processors in the 8800GTX Ultra.

Jul 20, 2007, 02:59 AM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Carmack gives "Kiss of Death" to PPU's Source: Neoseeker _____________ When speaking to "BootDaily" John Carmack apparently told them that dedicated physics cards don't really add anything to a multi-core system that the CPU's and GPU's can't already do. I wonder if Aegia's stock dropped on this news? Granted, John wants GPU's to become more general purpose, with finer grained scheduling and context switching, however in the last few years we've definitely observed a trend of increasing GPU processors which are becoming more general purpose with time - witness the 320 stream processors in the 2900XT and the 128 processors in the 8800GTX Ultra.