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On 04/10/2013 18:04, Bruce Hill wrote: |
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>> If this is true, it is a GAME CHANGERS (could not resist the pun). |
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>> > So: |
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>> > A. it is time for me to dig into this issue. |
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>> > B. Are any of the folks on this list working to get |
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>> > Mantle support available on Gentoo? |
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>> > C. Anyone tested one of the "Hawaii" radeon cards? |
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>> > D. Anyone working on running SteamOS virtualize on (gentoo) linux? |
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>> > as always, your thoughts are most welcome |
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>> > James |
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>> > [1] |
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>> > http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049369/amd-nvidia-ramp-up-linux-driver-support-after-valves-steamos-announcement.html |
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>> > [2] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-api-gcn-battlefield-4,24418.html |
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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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