But...
... will it run Crysis?
Nvidia has announced its next-generation GPU, and with it a new interconnect it dubs NVLink that it says will increase the bandwidth among GPUs – and also CPUs, should a processor designer implement it – over that of PCIe by five to twelve times. Nvidia NVLink block diagram String a bunch of GPUs together with NVLink, and …
I did a presentation a few years back on the "commodity version of Anton" (Anton is MD pecial purpose hardware.
I have a slide which compares the PCIx vs Hypertransport characterisics, and why D.E.Shaw built their own.
This would seem to be a natural evolution and the reinvention of the Video bus...
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Humongous strides are still being made in the computing space. This is another stepping stone towards more and more computing power available to individual users. I can hardly wait to see this become a reality.
I wonder what kind of eye-candy future game developers will throw in to make their plotless games look even better. Maybe some kind of mix between Battlefield 6 and Minecraft ? Truly deformable terrain and structures without any scripting ? Bodies and rubble that stay for the duration of the round ? Blood spurting out of severed arteries ?
Who knows, we might even get a game with an actual plot ?