From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:20:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524F150B.3000001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131004160437.GJ10604@server>
On 04/10/2013 18:04, Bruce Hill wrote:
>> If this is true, it is a GAME CHANGERS (could not resist the pun).
>> >
>> >
>> > So:
>> > A. it is time for me to dig into this issue.
>> > B. Are any of the folks on this list working to get
>> > Mantle support available on Gentoo?
>> > C. Anyone tested one of the "Hawaii" radeon cards?
>> > D. Anyone working on running SteamOS virtualize on (gentoo) linux?
>> >
>> >
>> > as always, your thoughts are most welcome
>> >
>> > James
>> >
>> > [1]
>> > http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049369/amd-nvidia-ramp-up-linux-driver-support-after-valves-steamos-announcement.html
>> >
>> > [2] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-api-gcn-battlefield-4,24418.html
> computer gaming (yawn)...
Think again.
What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance
hardware you have right now?
Gaming.
What is the GPU capable of achieving when parallelized? Well, graphics
rendering is highly parallelizable and nowadays you see it in render
farms and Top500 supercomputers. But those didn;t fund it, so what did?
Graphics cards sold to gamers.
Graphics cards for gamers are probably the only thing left really
keeping the pc market as such going. Yes, there are still millions of
them on corporate desktops but that is a cut-throat market and at
what-tiny-number-of-bucks a pop? Bread and butter money, it keeps things
ticking over and pays the rent. But gamers pay for the bling.
Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that
you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the
primary high performance market - gamers.
Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK, I
don't play them at all. But the market they make up - that's different.
Those egg-heads are very important
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-04 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-04 15:02 [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine James
2013-10-04 16:04 ` Bruce Hill
2013-10-04 16:26 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-10-04 16:49 ` James
2013-10-04 17:36 ` Bruce Hill
2013-10-04 19:20 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-10-04 20:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Bruce Hill
2013-10-05 9:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-10-05 10:37 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-10-05 10:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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