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Originally posted by gbeauche View PostIMHO, another gpgpu language is a non-sense. Come on, Pathscale is a compiler company, they are good at backends and middle ends, why bother with another language? They should check HMPP out, which can be a better solution (pragmas from plain C code). Though a dedicated code generator could be better than plain CUDA, CAL, OpenCL in certain cases as each implementation has their own set of problems (performance-wise, even on the same platform), curiously.
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Originally posted by tuke81 View PostOn the topic: So PathScale is making new gpgpu standart which is open source and giving some fermi cards to nouveau driver developers. Any toughs of that, do we need a yet another gpgpu language and if yes. Why opencl is not enough? Or is this gpgpu language only suited for HPC industry.
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Hmm thread full of usual amount of bs...
On the topic: So PathScale is making new gpgpu standart which is open source and giving some fermi cards to nouveau driver developers. Any toughs of that, do we need a yet another gpgpu language and if yes. Why opencl is not enough? Or is this gpgpu language only suited for HPC industry.
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Originally posted by codestr0m View PostWhile I appreciate your enthusiasm for team red I prefer to support and buy good hardware. I encourage you to look at the lowest level details of the engineering between the two camps and once you're really informed come back and tell others what to do. Nvidia is pushing innovation, but what has team red done in the past couple years?
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Originally posted by D?niel Fraga View PostBesides that, nvidia offers VDPAU and very good interaction with Composite extension (it's been a long time I don't use any ATI driver, so I can't tell today how it is in this aspect).
VDPAU is port and remap to windows driver part. They didnt invent anything, they just remap it.
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I tell you my opinion, but I may need these questions answered by yourself!
1) How much Watt does Fermi consume on Idle and on Perfomance?
2) Does Fermi work in Perfomance mode if not switched my blob driver?
3) Does Nvidia close source and even lastest opensource thing?
How much time would it take to create barebone opensource driver that can handle power well? Let it be A
How much time would it take to create moderately featured 3D driver? Let it be B
This "offer" is merely a "welcome" to pay HUUUUUGE electricity bill by whatever freelancer takes on!
Bill size= (HrzA*300 + HrsB*100)*price_per_KWh
This is sick!
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Originally posted by MartjeB View PostHas Nvidia done *anything* apart from rebranding, the pas two years?
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Originally posted by blackiwid View PostWhat I don?t get is why people are working so hard to make a opensource driver against Nvidias will. Let?s unite and lets buy all AMD cards instead and consentrate development of that driver with no support from Nvidia. If there is a very good free driver for amd hardware, Nvidia gets more under pressure with the last few flopping series of there cards they are under heavy presure at the moment, somedays they can not ignore 1-5% of the market like they did till now.
Besides that, nvidia offers VDPAU and very good interaction with Composite extension (it's been a long time I don't use any ATI driver, so I can't tell today how it is in this aspect). AMD/ATI drivers were historically know to be buggy, so maybe this makes people decides not to buy AMD/ATI cards...
Anyway, you're right, since AMD is more friendly to open source than nvidia. But in practice, I think the situation will not change soon.
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ok this time I mad some mistakes, which are not that small, I am cooking besides writing so sorry about that, the edit button is gone so I cannot correct this.
But I think you all understand me, and thats the main purpuse of communication
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