ATI/nVidia Obliterated

[K_Mitnick]

GPUs are getting enormous.
When I opened my 5870 I wondered how long it would be before I would be buying a whole seperate case just for graphics processing.

I also noticed that 1GHz was still a 'holy grail', and thought I have a 3.4GHz boat-anchor here and they're cheering bout 1,000MHz.

Why can't someone build a dongle & write a driver, so I can farm graphics out to my Pentium4?

Laugh...

Then think about it...

Thanks.

 

[Pyree]

CPU scalar processing is very different from gpu vector processing. Also, processing power is not only determined by frequency.

 

[Pyree]

^+1

Also, your new qoute greg. LOL! How is a chicken tuna turkey salad sandwich going to have that effect?

 

[Pyree]

Oh. I don't know the slang. I though it literally mean what it is. Great choice of Chinese word for the pronunciation.

 

[K_Mitnick]

Got it.

Well there's two 'Best Answer's.

It's been on my mind for some time, & finally got around to asking just to put it to rest.
I didn't even consider scalar/vector, assuming raw power would overcome any deficits.

Thanks fellas for the proper responses.

edit: I got similar answers (from other places) when I proposed using usb drives for ram extension, ...but they're doing that now. So thought I would ask. Thanks again.

 

[nordlead]

The reason they use USB for RAM extension is because it is better than using the HDD for virtual memory. Yea, USB is slow but it is faster than a HDD when the user is trying to also access files.

 

[K_Mitnick]

Best answer selected by K_Mitnick.

 

[K_Mitnick]

Actually, 28nm will make 1ghz graphics clock a standard.....
and clocks itself mean nothing about performance, try getting a Core i7's CPU it self to render the same graphics as a HD5450 and u'll suddenly find the i7 a piece of crap.

Aren't they both silicon chips?