Meanwhile, Intel is preparing a novel new product with the code-name Larrabee. But if you don’t desperately need a new graphics card right now, you might want to wait a few months and see how this new generation of products looks. Unfortunately, we can’t tell you which one is the better buy because we don’t really know about their price, performance, power utilization, or any of that other stuff. Nvidia may only have high-end chips at first, at then only at the end of the year or possibly early next year. If the rumors are to be believed, the company should have a top-to-bottom lineup in the next month or two. ATI appears to be a few months ahead of Nvidia on their rollout. Don’t let CUDA or ATI Stream influence your buying decisions too much.įuture Hardware: Nvidia, ATI, and Intel’s Larrabeeīoth ATI and Nvidia are getting their new DirectX 11 class graphics products ready to roll. New programming models, such as using the GPU for general computing tasks, tend to take off when standards emerge, so the real action will probably be in OpenCL and DirectX 11 Compute Shaders. CUDA is more popular, but it’s still mostly stuck in the “big iron” high performance computing and academic fields, with only a handful of real consumer apps. Nvidia’s is called CUDA, ATI’s is called ATI Stream. Each company has its own proprietary means of programming its graphics products. It’s hard to launch a new software industry.
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