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Am 04.10.2013 22:53, schrieb Bruce Hill: |
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> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> computer gaming (yawn)... |
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>> Think again. |
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>> What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance |
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>> hardware you have right now? |
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>> Gaming. |
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>> What is the GPU capable of achieving when parallelized? Well, graphics |
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>> rendering is highly parallelizable and nowadays you see it in render |
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>> farms and Top500 supercomputers. But those didn;t fund it, so what did? |
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>> Graphics cards sold to gamers. |
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>> Graphics cards for gamers are probably the only thing left really |
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>> keeping the pc market as such going. Yes, there are still millions of |
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>> them on corporate desktops but that is a cut-throat market and at |
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>> what-tiny-number-of-bucks a pop? Bread and butter money, it keeps things |
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>> ticking over and pays the rent. But gamers pay for the bling. |
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>> Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that |
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>> you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the |
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>> primary high performance market - gamers. |
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>> Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK, I |
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>> don't play them at all. But the market they make up - that's different. |
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>> Those egg-heads are very important |
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> See previous reply in thread to James. This one was not threaded, but rather, |
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> a reply to the OP, so it makes it look as if you haven't read the thread. |
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> I played one computer game one day in 1990. Lost that entire day to that |
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> stupid game, and never played again. Except...one time for a few hours with a |
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> new friend the second year living in China. He wanted me to play NFS. After |
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> playing a few races with him, I explained that we do this with _real_cars_ on |
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> _real_roads_ in _real_life_ "back in America". It developed from the days of |
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> moonshining, and your car (and you as a driver) weren't anything if you |
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> couldn't outrun the local cops. ;) |
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what, with your stupid 55mph speed limit? |