What is that affordable 12Gb card that you are going to be forced to change in a year because it won't have DX12 support?
Hehe, GPU may be the future, but at least for us, is not the present, also being constrained to a GPU vendor, CUDA being propetary forces us to acquire Nvidia cards, so everything will evolve at the speed Nvidia wants.
The promise of Pascal is the same as the promise of Maxwell chips... did Maxwell change so much? No, more Raw power? Yes, for sure, more flexibility? I doubt it even when in theory there is more flexibility the only thing I hear from GPU render engines developers is the constant limitations they have to do that thing or the other thing... Pascal? Will see, Maxwell is not what it was supposed top be, at least up to my understanding.
As I said, GPU may be the future, but is not the present, and I think it won't be for a few years yet, will see, I may be wrong of course :)
And som final questions to hear opinions and thoughs:
- What happens if Intel starts integrating thoushands of OpenCL cores in their CPU's?
- Do you think the GPU integration effort from intel is just so the GPU can be inside the CPU?
- What do you think about Intel interest in ARM architeture as competitor and model to draw the future?
- Do you think Intel don't see that people is thinking in GPU's as RAW power instead of thinking in their CPU's?
- Why do you think Intel has developed Embree and their failed Computation Card?
Intel has not become the giant it is because it's been standing still seeing how competitors gain market, what happened to the reign of AMD64? AMD was the first implementing a x86 compatible 64 bit architecture... can you compare the AMD power as of today with Intel power?
I think a lot of things will come, specially regarding the CPU world, and CUDA is here to stay, but if OpenCL starts growing and receive support by different vendors... will see...
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