Tim Sweeney : The End Of GPU Roadmap.

Here's a little something about one of the many stuff I'm excited about and don't really or rather I'm lazy to find the time to blog about.

Couple of months ago, I've got a heads up of a link that ended me up downloading a power point presentation made by Tim Sweeney, a Video Game Developer, CEO and Founder of Epic Games, about the End of GPU Roadmap. I must say, this is a very very good read. Throughout the presentation, Tim stated that GPU line will die by the year 2020 as it draws itself closer and closer to CPU which actually, we're right back into the cycle when we first started with computers running on Intel 80386 without the GPU way back before I was even born. With the upcoming Intel Larabee, these are made possible since the CPU are actually a Hybrid CPU/GPU where developers are actually able to create games with better graphics that would actually render in-game. It offers texture filtering,anti-aliasing, rasterization that can be replaced with a software implementation through C++ and backed by massive computing power.

Some of you might have read about the Power of Gaming Triangle on my old post few years back where the PhysX Technology actually completes the circle that makes sense in the Gaming Industry for Processing Physics. But many might not know that PhysX Technology can be now found on your GeForce graphic cards starting from the 8 Series until the recent GTX Series model. Ever since Nvidia has acquired PhysX, GPU and PPU are already all in one piece so, if you wanna build a high-end machine, you don't need to waste a space for a Physics Processing Unit anymore as it is already integrated into your graphic cards which processes a lot better than the unit
itself.

Gaming Triangle

With the upcoming Larabee, the three separate Processing unit will unite as one into a hybrid CPU/GPU/PPU which offers an even better in-game environment

The future is indeed a very exciting event for the Gaming Industry as well as the Tech Industry in the computer side. As a computer tech enthusiast, I cannot wait to see what it holds for the upcoming Larabee.

For those who wanna read the slides, you can click here. You can download it as well.

Until then, I'm signing off with my hiatus still on. Hopefully you geeks like me out there would enjoy the read. Wannabes can Fuck Off because you totally suck and you cannot catch the vibe we're in.


-JJ,out-