As nVidia’s FERMI is designed with super-computing in mind, nVidia is quick to point out that it is also targeting Apple’s Snow Leopard and Windows 7.
We recently wrote about nVidia‘s new ‘FERMI‘ technology for their next gen GPUs. It’s basically a GPU chip that can — in some cases — do CPU-type work and processes.
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And still more joy for the AMD/ATI crowd as AMD announced an open-source based physics initiative with simulation technology and graphics mover Pixelux Entertainment. Geeksmack.net reports:
NVIDIA has been buffing their PhysX capable GPU’s for quite a while now. And to AMD/ATI users despair, NVIDIA has has disabled PhysX for their software when the hardware is
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In as far as the tug of war between nVidia and AMD for the GPU “king of the hill” title, it has been a close contest these past years. Currently, with AMD/ATI’s HD400o series now done and nVidia’s GT200 project all over as well, both are priming for their new releases.
nVidia, in a bid to
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