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ATI roadmaps leaked

Chile Hardware have managed to get hold of an ATI PowerPoint presentation dated October 5th, revealing (amongst other things) parts of ATI's chipset, high-end and CrossFire roadmaps for 2007 and beyond.

Probably the most interesting new information revealed in these slides is ATI's plans to support four-GPU CrossFire configurations (a la Quad SLI, one would assume) by the third quarter of 2007, by way of a chipset for AMD's 4x4 quad-core, dual CPU platform codenamed RD790. Mention is also made of support for the next-generation PCI Express bus and HyperTransport 3.0 with this particular chipset, with 2008 seeing the expected release of a chipset featuring an on-board DirectX 10 graphics core as well as a next-generation south bridge (SB700).

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StreamComputing Presentation

Pokud vás zajímá situace s GPGPU a StreamProcessing, mám tu pro vás jednu prezentaci a přednášku, na které se podíleli profesor Vijay S. Pande (za univerzitu Stanford), Michael Mullany (za společnost PeakStream Inc.), Dave Orton (za ATi), Jeff Yates (za Havok) a Chas Boyd (Microsoft).



- prezentaci (video a slajdy) najdete na webu ATi - zde
- pokud byste si chtěli stahnout jen video, link je zde (ale na stažení budete potřebovat např. SDP)

(slajdy mají zhruba 20MB, video cca 130MB)

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Interview: In The Hot Seat: ATI's Phil Rogers

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2103630,00.asp

menší výcuc:

The Vista driver model does incur a small CPU overhead compared to Windows XP in order to copy driver commands from user mode memory to dma buffers that are read by the GPU. This can be a 5-10% overhead, depending on the application and how well the driver is written. But the important thing to understand is that this overhead is only seen on CPU limited cases, which means low resolution and no anti-aliasing.

Vista driver model (sám o sobě) přináší navýšení nároků na procesor zhruba kolem 5-10%

Actually, F.E.A.R. was a different issue. Our initial Vista D3D driver was missing some multithreading optimizations, due to some churn in the multithreading model leading up to Vista RTM. You will be happy to learn that we have restored performance parity on F.E.A.R. in our Catalyst release for March.

Prvotní Vista drivery postrádaly některé optimalizace pro multi-threading (především v souvislosti s hrou F.E.A.R.); březnové Catalysty budou v tomto ohledu již v pořádku.

The new OpenGL driver has been designed from the ground up for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux and internally we are running and testing it on all three (or six if you count the 64 bit versions). As we planned the transition to the new OpenGL driver, it did not make sense to port the previous OpenGL driver to Vista. So as Vista approached, it naturally became the launch vehicle for the new driver and its highest priority. The XP and Linux versions of this new OpenGL driver will ship later this year.

Nový OpenGL driver, který byl zatím implementován do Catalystů pro Visty (a jehož vývoj trval tři roky), bude použit i pro WinXP a Linux (během tohoto roku).

The Catalyst Control Center still has a lot of life in it. Longer term our goal is continue to improve the user experience and to move towards a single or central user interface where AMD customers can configure the majority of AMD product settings. It is our goal and vision to eventually have a single UI for all AMD products (graphics, CPU, chipset), but this is of course a major project, and it will be quite some time before we're able to release such a product.

Ohledně Catalyst Control Centra můžeme čekat rozšíření na jednotné rozhraní pro všechny ATi/AMD produkty (grafika, procesor, čipset)

That being said, AMD has put a significant amount of time into developing drivers for physics support and developing tools that third party companies can work with to support GPGPU applications (we are currently working with a number of companies on this initiative). You'll definitely see applications later this year and next that take advantage of AMD's Stream Computing.

Do konce roku bychom se měli dočkat dalších aplikací akcelerooaných grafickou kartou.

However it is way too soon to look beyond DX10 in terms of game usage of graphics. Frankly we have seen very few games yet make full use of DX9 shader model 3.0. And DX10 game development is still in its infancy. I think you, ISVs and gamers are going to be amazed once ISVs really get DX10 fully utilized and showing its power and flexibility.

Nemá cenu zatím přemýšlet o tom, co nám přinese verze DX, která vyjde pod DX10 (SM4.0), protože v současnosti existuje teprve několik her, které dokážou využít potenciálu SM3.0.

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Dailytech on the AMD CC: "On a positive note, AMD reported $197 million USD in revenue from its graphics division in Q1 2007. This represented a 19 percent gain from Q4 2006."

So much for those assuming that ATI is losing money due to this delay. Revenue is actually UP since G80's release, in a slow time of year. Considering how late it is in the last-gen's product cycle, yields are surely good and I think it's safe to say that profits are up as well. I wonder if any of this revenue comes from pre-sales of R600. Frankly, I doubt it. Not that early.

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ATi platí Half-Life® 2: Lost Coast a Half-Life 2: Deathmatch via Steam majitelům všech Radeonů!



Podle forums.steampowered.com a steampowered.com mají všichni uživatelé grafických karet ATi Radeon možnost legálního stažení zmiňovaných her přest steam. Nabídka je časově omezená.

Není to fake!!!

http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

za otestování děkuji uživateli cool.user a za upozornění uživateli hlupak


//edit: už se to objevilo i na CDR http://www.cdr.cz/a/21484

[Bob van Sikorski]

//edit: už se to objevilo i na CDR http://www.cdr.cz/a/21484

za upozornění patří dík no-xovi

[Opty]

k hulanovu clanku na HELL.DONE:

pokusil sem se mistrovi (naivne) oponovat svym prispevkem, samozrejme byl do deseti minut smazan

dokonce mi napsal soukromou zpravu, ve ktere rika, ze opravi odkaz na volne stazeni lost coast, cimz chtel rict, ze ten odkaz proste smaze