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That whole topic about SUN (i believe it is) making CPU's based on laser, claiming its can go up 1000x faster then current gen CPUs..

Imagine if they implemented that into GPUs? What do you think we will see in performance?

Would be see framerates going above 100 in crysis? 400? maybe even 800?

Would we see smaller GPU's because using laser technology would lower the amount of heat emitted?

Who knows right..

The whole MHZ/GHZ race is over, now its the "multicore" race.. but that can only go so far too. We're currently hitting limitations when it comes to the old CPU design..

Look at graphics cards these days, heatsinks the size of bricks man. fans and watercooling everywhere.

This new laser tech can start a whole new generation of CPU's GPU's Mainboard chipsets, etc etc etc.

That, combined with SSD instead of your basic hard drive.. mmmm
What do you guys think?

What do you think will be the future of CPUs/GPUs, will we continue with the copper wiring heat emitting watercooled mhz cpu/gpus?

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Things will always be upgrading man, in ten years our new computers will look little like what we are all using now. but this is an interesting topic. Thank you.

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By the time that technology has reached consumer electronics Crysis will probably look like Doom. I don't think there will be discrete graphics cards by that time either. Everything will be done on a CPU with different cores for different purposes and there will probably be a different way of rendering such as ray tracing.

If this technology works out it will be the biggest change in computer technology since we moved from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits. With this technology everyone will have PCs powerful enough to run games far more advanced than Crysis just as everyone owns a PC today that is powerful enough to word process, play music, edit video and use the internet.

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And our grandsons will all rejoice in the marvelous world of laser computing, and will be talking all day of how much faster quantum computing will be.

Now in a more serious approach, although the technology looks very promising it's at least 10 to 20 years away of consumer aplications, it's still too expensive.

Let's just hope the CPU/GPU manufacturers come up with a more efficient architecture.

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